Cover of The Messenger No. 147

Cover of The Messenger 147. Read more on ann12024.��Highlights include:

• A report on progress of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), a second generation panoramic integral field spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
• The Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment Sunyaev-Zel���dovich Instrument (APEX-SZ), four years observing galaxy clusters.
• Testing the feasibility of the near-infrared surface brightness method to measure distances to Cepheid stars.
• The story behind the search of intermediate-mass black holes in Globular Clusters and their connection with supermassive black holes in early galaxy formation. ��
• The description of the GAIA-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey, a large library of high quality spectroscopy of some 100 000 Milky Way stars.