ESO releases The Messenger No. 140

30 June 2010

ESO has just published issue 140 of its quarterly journal, The Messenger. This issue features a range of articles including:

A roundup of proposed instruments for the planned E-ELT;
An in-depth look at the FORS instruments on the VLT on the occasion of their double 10th anniversary;
Updates on new advances in adaptive optics;
How astronomers are using the CRIRES spectrograph on the VLT to search for exoplanets orbiting very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs; and
Wolf-Rayet stars and the search for the origins of gamma ray bursts.

The issue also details how ESO staff in Chile helped with humanitarian aid in the aftermath of February��s earthquake.

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