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Avishai Gal-Yam

From the right: Prof. Eli Waxman and Prof. Avishai Gal-Yam

A star dies, a particle is born

Is the origin of a particle that landed at the South Pole in a cosmic event 700 million years old?
A black hole emits jets of particles. Image: depositphotos.com

For the first time, a neutrino particle has been detected that came to us from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole

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A group of international researchers, including from the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute, discovered the particle that arrived following an emission event that occurred in 2019
supernova Illustration: shutterstock

Landmarks in the universe

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SN 2013cu

Weizmann Institute scientists analyzed the composition of the elements emitted from a rare star, just before it exploded

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Orion Nebula. Photo: NASA. Processing: shutterstock

Low orbit - an ULTRASAT satellite based on Israeli technology, will scan the sky in the ultraviolet range

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supernova From Wikipedia

Small explosion, big explosion

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The supernova SN 2005gl

Space - super-supernovas / Avishi Gal-Yam

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SN 2011fe. From Wikipedia

A supernova in a neighboring galaxy sheds new light on exploding stars

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An example of a supernova discovered in the deep field of the Subaru telescope, by researchers from Israel, Japan and the USA

Israeli researchers discovered the oldest and most distant exploding stars in the universe

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The galaxy M51 and the supernova inside it as photographed by the director of the observatory at the Weizmann Institute, Ilan Manolis,

A newly discovered exploding star in the galaxy M51 was photographed at the new observatory of the Weizmann Institute of Science

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Gamma ray bursts. Image: NASA

Two researchers from the field of astrophysics jointly win the prestigious award for young physicists on behalf of the Israel Physics Society

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A simulated color image of Cassiopeia A, combining information from three sources: red - information from the Spitzer Space Observatory, orange - from Hubble, and green and blue - from Chandra

stars outside

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Dr. Avishai Gal-Yam and research student Yair Harkavi. Weizmann Institute

White dwarfs, heavy elements

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Kuiper belt. Illustration: Tel Aviv University

Israeli and American researchers discovered for the first time a small object in the far reaches of the solar system

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Weizmann Institute of Science scientists observed for the first time the supernova of a giant star

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Weizmann Institute scientists have identified the largest exploding star ever observed

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Holes in theory - and in reality

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Dark matter", the great present-absent of the universe, disturbs the rest of the astronomers.

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