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TRAPPIST-North Inauguration !  

Today the new telescope, TRAPPIST-North has ben inaugurated at the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco in presence of scientists of the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech and astronomers from Liège University.

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TRAPPIST-North IAU Z53  

TRAPPIST-North (TN) is now part of the world list of the International Astronomical Union observatories, as Z53 !

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A trio of Earth size planets at 40 light years  

Liège astrophysicists have discovered three planets the size of the Earth around a small star located at 40 light years. These planets could have habitable conditions on their surfaces.

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TRAPPIST-1b and c planets  

The Hubble Space Telescope observed the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system to catch a rare event: a double transit

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The Antennae Galaxies  

The famous Antennae is a pair of spiral galaxies that are interacting and mingling their stars.

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Earth-sized rocky planet orbiting a nearby star  

TRAPPIST has been part of the discovery of a new rocky planet three times closer to Earth than any previously discovered Earth-sized planet and in orbit of a M-dwarf star. M-dwarf stars.

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Halloween's 'Great Pumpkin' Asteroid  

It is only a little bit scary but it's here in time for Halloween. A 400-metre-wide asteroid that scientists only spotted three weeks ago is going to shoot past Earth at 35 kilometres a second.

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Discovery of rings around an asteroid  

Rings have been discovered by chance around the distant icy asteroid Chariklo which orbits between Saturn and Uranus. A discovery which makes Chariklo a unique object, and which opens up a new area in the study of small bodies in the solar system.

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