Les hémisphères sud et nord semblent aussi brillants l’un que l’autre sur cette image de la Terre, intitulée La bille bleue, prise par l’équipage du vaisseau spatial Apollo 17 le 7 décembre 1972. Photo : NASA

(Français) Weizmann : pourquoi les deux hémisphères semblent-ils lumineux vus de l’espace ?

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Télescope James Webb - photo NASA

Innovative System Developed at Hebrew U. and BSC Evaluates Habitability of Distant Planets

The climate crisis presents a huge challenge to all people on Earth. It has led many scientists to look for exo-planets, planets outside our...

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A g. photo du télescope James Webb (Nasa), à d. Pr Noah Dana-Picard (photo Y. Koletker pour le JCT)

(Français) “Le télescope James Webb révolutionne l’étude de la création de l’univers”, Pr Noah Dana-Picard, Jerusalem College of Technology

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Highly magnified star Earendel. The collection of yellow-looking galaxies form the massive galaxy-cluster lens that magnifies background objects lying behind it. The inset shows the highly magnified red galaxy, host to Earendel, stretched into an arc due to lensing, and the highly magnified star is marked with a white arrow.  CREDITS:  SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI)  IMAGE PROCESSING: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

(Français) Johns Hopkins U. et BGU : record battu, Hubble repère Earendel, l’étoile la plus éloignée jamais vue

In a collaboration including researchers from Ben-Gurion University, the Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star...

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Haifa and TAU U. Employ Hubble Telescope to Investigate Blackholes

Prof. Doron Chelouche at the Department of Physics and the Haifa Center for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at University of Haifa: “This will be...

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Pr Nathalie Balaban-Questembert

Hebrew U.: Newly-Identified State in Bacteria Has Major Implications for Antibiotic Treatment and Resistant Strains

For almost two years, newsfeeds have kept us updated on the daily battle to annihilate the coronavirus.  So, it’ s easy to forget that...

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Pr Eliezer Rabinovici

Israeli Professor Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U.) elected as next President of the CERN Council

The CERN Council announced the election of Professor Eliezer Rabinovici as its 24th president, for a period of one year, renewable twice, with a...

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Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg who radically changed the way we look at the universe, passed away on 23 July

Steven Weinberg, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, passed away on 23 July, aged 88. He revolutionised particle physics, quantum field...

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