Messenger issue 146

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Published in December 2011. It features articles on subjects that include:

• The dramatic story behind the new VLT Survey Telescope (VST) on Paranal, and its 300-megapixel wide-field optical camera, OmegaCAM.
• The milestone of four-telescope interferometry with PIONIER for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer.
• The spectra of extremely metal-poor stars, and the discovery of an extremely primitive star with X-shooter.
• Probing the epoch of reionisation by studying the Ly-alpha luminosity function at high redshift.

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