Tel Aviv University Professor Shay Zucker and Dr Yifat Dzigan will be searching for new planets in our Galaxy as part of the European Space Agency’s Gaia project, which launched last week. Gaia contains a camera with a billion pixels to measure the movements of the stars.
http://www.jpost.com/Enviro-Tech/Scientists-from-Tel-Aviv-University-take-part-in-international-space-project-335320