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Avishay Gal-Yam

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27.03.2024

Weizmann Institute scientists map out data from a once-in-a-lifetime explosion

ULTRASAT
21.02.2023

A Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Space Agency flagship, the instrument will enter orbit in 2025; it’s expected to revolutionize...

A Wolf-Rayet star and the nebula surrounding it captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Gal-Yam and colleagues are the first to discover a rare-type supernova originating from this star // NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
12.01.2022

A first-of-its-kind exploding star – thought to have existed only in theory – was recently discovered

One of the Giant Magellan Telescope's mirrors
19.10.2021

Weizmann Institute of Science joins Giant Magellan Telescope to advance the world’s most powerful telescope

tidal disruption event
26.04.2021

A high-energy neutrino that flung out from a star, ripped apart by a black hole, reveals something about the cosmic sources of these...

Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam
20.12.2018

Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam is the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University...

artist's illustration: merging neutron stars
16.10.2017

Weizmann Institute scientists help confirm and analyze the star merger

Circum-stellar shell
14.03.2017

Pre-supernova stars may show signs of instability for months before the big explosion

Chandra/Harvard
15.12.2016

The brightest flash of light in the cosmos could be a rare event involving a star and a supermassive black hole

Supernova 3C58, first observed in the year 1181 AD by Chinese and Japanese astronomers, imaged by the Chandra telescope in X-ray emissions. NASA/CXC/SAO
29.06.2015

Ultraviolet observations may shed new light on exploding stars...

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