Welcome to the TRAPPIST website
You will find on this site information about TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope). Please take the time to explore it and check regularly for updates.
You will find on this site information about TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope). Please take the time to explore it and check regularly for updates.
The TRAPPIST-South telescope is located within at La silla ESO Observatory (Chile)
Our researchers are interested in comets and exoplanets.
30 students from the Masters in Space Sciences from the Liège University and Cadi Ayyad University from Marrakech spent a week under the starry skies of the Oukaimeden Observatory to live the life of an astronomer.
Just five years ago, astronomers led by Michaël Gillon, researcher at the University of Liège revealed the discovery of one of the most fascinating exoplanetary systems ever observed.
TOI-2257b is an exoplanet described as a temperate "mini-Neptune", about twice the size of Earth, orbiting a cool star in a highly elliptical orbit of 35 days.
Trappist-North, the little brother of Trappist-South (La Silla, Chile) was inaugurated at the OukaImeden Observatory, in Morocco.