Department of Astrophysics & Wise Observatory

News/Announcements


Recent News/Announcements

Oct/2009 "The Largest Gravitationally Lensed Images",
discovered by Adi Zitrin and Tom Broadhurst
Science Magazine Editor's Choice Column
Oct/2009 Interview with Dr. Smadar Naoz in ynet (Hebrew)
16/Sep/2009 CoRoT-7b: First solid evidence for a rocky exoplanet
[ English ][ Hebrew ]
Hebrew Articles: ynet - nrg - news1
14/Jun/2009 Oded Spector's PhD research was highlighted in a
Science magazine report at a conference on Isolated Galaxies - Granada,Spain.
17/May/2009 Dan David Prize Symposium - Schedule
The Cosmic Microwave Background:
Cosmology's Rosetta Stone

News/Announcements from previous years

13/Aug/2008 Press Release: Israeli astronomers find a dark matter filament close to the Milky Way ( English / Hebrew )
Articles:
Arutz7 - Nfc - Hayadan - arxiv.org - - NewScientistSpace - Yahoo - American friends of TAU - ScienceDaily
15/Feb/2008 Wise Observatory astronomers help discover a scaled-down distant solar system (English/ Hebrew)
  • Articles: Ha'aretz - Ynet - arxiv.org - sciencemag.org
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    • 19/Oct/2006 Press Release: The Star, the Dwarf and the Planet
    First Diectly Imaged Brown Dwarf Companion to an Exoplanet Host Star
    23/May/2006 Press Release: TAU researchers using Hubble capture a unique gravitational lens
    20-22/Feb/2006 Active Galactic Nuclei": From Atoms to Black Holes
    A workshop on the occasion of Hagai Netzer's 60th birthday
    01/Sep/2004 Press Release: First limits on terrestrial-mass extrasolar planets from microlensing
    - Science article , Ha'aretz article