Israeli-American physicist and Harvard professor focused on astrophysics and cosmology
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a 10-year program that will image the southern sky every few nights. The telescope has started regular operations from its Chilean mountaintop site and is already returning new detections, including thousands of asteroids and transient views such as Comet 3I/ATLAS.
Avi Loeb has been appointed to head a White House scientific advisory council probing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The team will report to a separate presidential panel and has begun requesting more than 50 videos, images and documents to investigate recent military sightings. Critics question the panel’s methods and Loeb’s unconventional theories.