Science

International team, including an Israeli professor, wins prestigious award in space research

Prof. Adi Zitron from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, together with his colleagues on the JWST UNCOVER team, won the AAS award for 2027 for his contribution to the study of the early universe, using a combination of James Webb observations and gravitational lensing, which led to the discovery of galaxies and black holes from the earliest epochs in the history of the universe.