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.
We guide you
TRAPPIST-South
The TRAPPIST-South telescope is located within at La silla ESO Observatory (Chile)
TRAPPIST-North
TRAPPIST-North is located at the Oukaimeden Observatory (Morocco)
Research
Our researchers are interested in comets and exoplanets.
Team
Meet our team of researchers
News & Events
News
3 janvier 2022
TRAPPIST observes JWST en route to final orbit
On the night of 2 January, the ULiège TRAPPIST-Sud telescope at ESO in Chile photographed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) moving among the stars in the constellation Orion.
News
A publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
ESO publishes images of 42 of the largest asteroids of the Solar System
A detailed catalog collected over the past four years with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory, with the participation of TRAPPIST telescopes from ULiège.
News
20 september 2021
The triple asteroid Kleopatra
Thanks to the Very Large Telescope of the ESO and with the help of TRAPPIST telescopes, a team of astronomers acquired the sharpest and most detailed images at this day of the triple asteroid Kleopatra
Video
TRAPPIST-North: inauguration of a telescope from Liège in the Moroccan Atlas
Trappist-North, the little brother of Trappist-South (La Silla, Chile) was inaugurated at the OukaImeden Observatory, in Morocco.
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