The Telescope | Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope

Construction of world's largest radio telescope begins

Building the world's largest telescope

Largest space telescope in history launches on ‘voyage back to the birth of the universe’

Project management for ground-based telescope array development

China to build the world's largest telescope array to study explosions on the Sun

Far away in the south of Israel, near Kibbutz Neot Smadar, a new observatory is taking shape. Introducing LAST - Large Array Survey Telescope, the strongest astronomical survey to date. Led by Prof. Eran Ofek and Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami, and managed by Dr. David Polishook of the Weizmann Institute of Science, LAST has been built using multiple small-sized, off-the-shelf telescopes, in order to increase the field of view and the light collecting area of the system. The observatory will enable future dis