2012
Doom 3 BFG Edition graphics engine released as free software
About a year after the release of the source code of the original version of Doom 3’s graphics engine and only a few weeks after the Doom 3 BFG Edition, which contains Doom, Doom ][, Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil expansion pack together to 7 new levels titled “The Lost Mission” was published, the source code of the BFG Edition was released as well.
A Wreath of Stars by Bob Shaw
The novel “A Wreath of Stars” by Bob Shaw was published for the first time in 1976. Magniluct, a special glass that allows people to see in the dark, finds an unexpected application when an astronomer who is using a pair of glasses with magniluct lenses discovers a planet made of anti-neutrinos. After some time, in an African mine, the workers refuse to enter because they started seeing ghosts but they can only see them through magniluct lenses.
New discoveries on the dwarf planet Makemake
A number of ESO’s telescopes at La Silla and Paranal, Chile, were used to observe the dwarf planet Makemake. Mainly, these are the Very Large Telescope (VLT), New Technology Telescope (NTT) and TRAPPIST (transiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) telescopes. The data obtained with other smaller telescopes in South America such as the one in Cerro Armazones, the place where the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will be built, were combined with the main ones to obtain the maximum amount of information.
