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Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Ben Kelmer Studio
26.03.2023

The most powerful survey telescope in the world is being constructed in the south of Israel

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
30.09.2022

Weizmann Institute scientists observe NASA asteroid shooter in action

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

Prof. Eilam Gross
20.09.2021

A research pivot by Weizmann Institute scientists uses artificial intelligence to unravel the mysteries of colliding particles 

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...

Observation of Excess Events in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment
19.06.2020

Are they a sign of an infinitesimal impurity or a need to rewrite the physics books?

Prof. Daniel Zajfman in Heidelberg
16.12.2019

A new “cold-storage” ring first proposed by Prof. Daniel Zajfman yields its first results – and they were not what scientists had thought ...

ULTRASAT illustration
12.08.2019

Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology are heading this international project

double electron capture
02.05.2019

Detector searching for dark matter produces a startling discovery 

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