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The Perseid meteor shower is back: All the best places to watch shooting stars in Israel

One of the most impressive celestial shows of the year reaches its peak on August 12. But here’s a tip: Shooting stars can also be seen in the days before and after the peak.

|ByZIV REINSTEIN
Stargazing in the Negev Mountains
The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838.

Astronomers spot white dwarf star creating a colorful shockwave

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in interstellar space.

|ByREUTERS
Actor Wallace Shawn participates in a demonstration to support Gaza outside the White House on October 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement staged a demonstration to call for a cease of fire in the Middle East.

Olivia Coleman, Ilana Glazer, Wallace Shawn, among stars pledging to boycott Israeli film industry

Hollywood A-listers pledged to not screen films or work with Israeli film institutions…that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid" against Palestinians.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Illustration showing the remnant of a star being ejected at tremendous speed into space from the site of a supernova explosion caused by the interaction between a pair of white dwarfs.

Absolutely stellar race: Scientists uncover secrets of some of the cosmos's fastest stars - study

The white dwarfs reach speeds of almost 4x needed to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull.

|ByESTHER DAVIS

Black holes may be causing mature galaxies to stop producing new stars

Scientists have long suggested that the supermassive black holes in these galaxies are interacting with the gas clouds to prev

AUGUST 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.