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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/why-do-we-see-the-man-in-the-moon/
Mar 12, 2012... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 12, 2012—There’s something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the Man in the Moon” who faithfully accomp ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/astronomers-observe-biggest-star-explosion/
Dec 03, 2009... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 3, 2009—What happens when a really gargantuan star—one hundreds of times bigger than our sun—blows up? Although a theory developed year ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-israelis-who-went-to-jupiter/
Jul 07, 2016... Dr. Yohai Kaspi, 42, a planetary researcher at the Weizmann Institute, watched on Tuesday live the Juno spacecraft in space and was reminded of one of his happi ... Read more
Dec 14, 2015...
Prof. Oded Aharonson in the observatory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Nov. 26, 2015. Credit: Eyal Toueg
Prof. Oded Aharonson had a comfo ... Read more
Aug 23, 2012... Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi space telescope show that the remnant of Tycho's supernova shines in the highest-energy form of light. This portrait of the ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/explosive-material-the-making-of-a-supernova/
Mar 15, 2017... In the most common type of supernova, the iron core of a massive star suddenly collapses in on itself and the outer layers are thrown out into space in a specta ... Read more
Aug 12, 2019... The Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency will work together to create a new "micro-satellite," the ULTRASAT, projected to launch in 2023 (W ... Read more
Aug 01, 2016... Headed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno’s mission is to “improve our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evoluti ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/a-multiple-impact-origin-for-the-moon/
Jan 09, 2017... The formation of the Moon has remained something of a puzzle. A leading theory proposes a cataclysmic impact involving a Mars-sized object and a young Earth. Bu ... Read more
May 28, 2017...
This artist’s concept shows the pole-to-pole orbits of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
Less than a year into its ... Read more
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