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  • The Wise Observatory is a professional astronomical research facility owned and operated by Tel-Aviv University. The observatory is located in the Negev desert, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon, about 200 km south of Tel-Aviv. It hosts the main 1-m diameter telescope, a number of smaller automated telescopes, as well as instrumentation for geological and atmospherical research. For over 40 years, Wise Observatory has been steadily outputting cutting-edge astronomical research, much of it taking advantage of the clear desert skies and the favorable geographic longitude. These allow tracking transient and time-variable phenomena when it is daytime at most other observatories on earth.

    News/Announcements
    Recent All Years (1999-2013)


    Apr/2013
    Using Black Holes to Measure the
    Universe's Rate of Expansion



    Feb/2013
    TAU/Harvard astronomers:
    Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life
    Might Come from Dying Stars

    | Sky&Telescope | NASA | Time Magazine |


    June/2012
    TAU researchers lead discovery of method
    to detect the first stars
    Local Announcement | BBC | Jpost


    May/2012
    SACKLER PRIZE in PHYSICAL SCIENCES
    Announcement of Laureates 2012
    Awarded for study of extra-solar planets



    Feb/2012
    The merger rate of binary white dwarf stars
    is measured for the first time