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Once in a lifetime Supernova: Israeli researchers photographed star as it began to explode

With a combination of luck and resourcefulness, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers asked NASA to use the Hubble telescope and obtained an unprecedented portrait of the early stages of a star exploding.

International Astronautics Federation: Prize for Prof. Yitzhak Ben-Israel

Prof. Ben-Israel, who served for 17 years as Chairman of the Israel Space Agency, will receive the prize for his contribution to astronautics and the advancement of the Federation.

Ilan Ramon International Space Conference in Israel

The conference was attended by senior NASA officials and other guests from the space industry around the world.

In order to strengthen the Israeli space industry: the Israeli Space Forum will be established

The purpose of the forum, whose establishment was announced at the International Space Conference, is to strengthen the Israeli space industry, support entrepreneurial activity, and reduce gaps in knowledge and barriers vis-à-vis space markets around the world.

Tonight: Israeli scientists at NASA will add an "artificial star" to the sky"

The ORCAS experiment will revolutionize astronomy – and make most space telescopes redundant.

Meet and ask the astronauts attending Israel Space Week 2024

Here they come, the space pilots who will be attending Israel Space Week 2024 – what would you like to ask them?

Successful results of the Israeli experiment with the radiation-protective vest in Artemis 1

The Israeli company StemRad has presented NASA with the test data and said that the results exceeded expectations.

The wheat does not grow any more: satellite images reveal the destruction of agriculture in Gaza and the Gaza envelope

Comparing the vegetation index on November 11, 2022, to November 11, 2023, reveals a difficult picture – but also provides hope for the future.

Forever Remembered: An Initiative to Attach the Names of All Iron Swords Martyrs to NASA's Mission to Jupiter

A local initiative to add the names of all 1,200 Iron Sword victims to NASA's Europa Clipper mission, scheduled to fly in October 2024 to search for signs of life on Jupiter's intriguing moon Europa. If implemented, the names of the fallen will be embedded on a special chip in the orbiter, travel 2.6 billion kilometers in space and reach the Jupiter system by the end of 2030.

Blue and White pride: Israeli company hi-Sky has launched Ella 1, a nanosatellite that will demonstrate multi-orbital communications

Hi-Sky hopes to demonstrate for the first time a smooth transition from surfing with a geostationary satellite to a low-Earth orbit satellite.

Space agreement signed for the first time between Israel and Azerbaijan

The agreement paves the way for projects in the fields of satellites, academic joint ventures and more.

A Danish astronaut will continue the experiment of Ilan Ramon and Eitan Stibbe – and photograph lightning sprites from the International Space Station

Andreas Mogensen docked at the space station – and in his backpack a camera capable of taking a thousand photos per second.

Israel's SpacePharma launches groundbreaking medical experiment laboratory into space

One of the trials could pave the way for the development of drugs against neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s

On the way to Jupiter: The names of the Israelis taking part in the mission are engraved on the front of the JUICE spacecraft

The European Space Agency (ESA) in a moving tribute to the key people who made the JUICE mission possible, including Prof. Yohai Kaspi of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Rony Mann of AccuBeat