The US space agency NASA announced Thursday that two Moroccan researchers have discovered a new small planet near the Earth.
"The data on the new planet are still confidential and will be officially announced tomorrow," said Zuhair bin Khaldun, director of the Okiaimden Observatory of the University of Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech.
"The center participated in an important discovery in the field of asteroids by a telescope called MOSS, which is a shortcut to Morocco Okaimeden Sky Survey," said Ben Khaldoun, head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Cady Ayyad and supervisor of the Okeaimden Observatory.
The new discovery, which was conducted at the level of the center of Okaimden, was also monitored by the International Space Agency's (NASA) telescope radio, with important data to be announced later.
The spokesman said that the importance of the discovery is that "for the first time in Morocco, Moroccan experts of this kind, and is very rare even in the world."
On the other hand, one of the researchers at the same center, in a statement to Haspris, that "the discovery of the small planet will be the fourth global case, and now a senior team from the International Space Agency to investigate and check the data before being officially disclosed."
The Okeaheden Center, which opened in 2007, last year discovered seven new planets outside the solar system that may be viable, all revolving around a star 40 years from Earth.
NASA uses its telescope for the Terabist-North telescope, a 60-cm optical robotic telescope operated and operated by scientists and engineers at the Astronomical Observatory of Okeaimden, part of the work of its Belgian counterpart Trappist-South, located in Chile.
The University Observatory of Judge Ayyad, located in the Okeaimden region of the province of Al-Haouz, was strengthened in 2016 by a new telescope equipped with a high-cost camera and allocated a new space observation platform.
This device can obtain the measurement of light for planets and stars and monitor comets and other small objects in the solar system, with high accuracy.
The Moroccan Observatory said that the Belgian team of the University of Liege, which contributed to the completion of this project, has already worked on the installation of a similar telescope in Chile, has achieved a great discovery is a system of planets consisting of several Earth-like planets, the surface is likely to be viable.
In conjunction with this project, the Laboratory of Physics of High Energies and Astrophysics at the University of Qadi Ayyad has completed two PhD degrees on two main subjects (planets and comets) and will be jointly supervised by the Universities of Liege and Marrakech.
"The data on the new planet are still confidential and will be officially announced tomorrow," said Zuhair bin Khaldun, director of the Okiaimden Observatory of the University of Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech.
"The center participated in an important discovery in the field of asteroids by a telescope called MOSS, which is a shortcut to Morocco Okaimeden Sky Survey," said Ben Khaldoun, head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Cady Ayyad and supervisor of the Okeaimden Observatory.
The new discovery, which was conducted at the level of the center of Okaimden, was also monitored by the International Space Agency's (NASA) telescope radio, with important data to be announced later.
The spokesman said that the importance of the discovery is that "for the first time in Morocco, Moroccan experts of this kind, and is very rare even in the world."
On the other hand, one of the researchers at the same center, in a statement to Haspris, that "the discovery of the small planet will be the fourth global case, and now a senior team from the International Space Agency to investigate and check the data before being officially disclosed."
The Okeaheden Center, which opened in 2007, last year discovered seven new planets outside the solar system that may be viable, all revolving around a star 40 years from Earth.
NASA uses its telescope for the Terabist-North telescope, a 60-cm optical robotic telescope operated and operated by scientists and engineers at the Astronomical Observatory of Okeaimden, part of the work of its Belgian counterpart Trappist-South, located in Chile.
The University Observatory of Judge Ayyad, located in the Okeaimden region of the province of Al-Haouz, was strengthened in 2016 by a new telescope equipped with a high-cost camera and allocated a new space observation platform.
This device can obtain the measurement of light for planets and stars and monitor comets and other small objects in the solar system, with high accuracy.
The Moroccan Observatory said that the Belgian team of the University of Liege, which contributed to the completion of this project, has already worked on the installation of a similar telescope in Chile, has achieved a great discovery is a system of planets consisting of several Earth-like planets, the surface is likely to be viable.
In conjunction with this project, the Laboratory of Physics of High Energies and Astrophysics at the University of Qadi Ayyad has completed two PhD degrees on two main subjects (planets and comets) and will be jointly supervised by the Universities of Liege and Marrakech.
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