Maroc News Today, in cooperation with NASA … The Oukaimeden Observatory discovers new planets!

Posted by Muhammad al-Mafraq in the street of 20 days 02/16/2021

The Oukaimeden Astronomical Observatory at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech has announced the contribution of its researchers, along with an international team of astronomers, to the discovery of new worlds among a group of stars.
This discovery involves three exoplanets orbiting a star located about 400 light years from the solar system, using space telescopes from the United States Space Agency (NASA), in addition to several ground observatories.
This solar system is characterized by the presence of three planets and an asteroid belt, in addition to two other stars orbiting the mother star named TOI-451, the size of these planets varies between the size of the Earth and Neptune, where observational data and observations on this solar system have been collected using a group of space and terrestrial telescopes since 2009 year.
This discovery was announced by NASA on Friday February 12, as well as by an international team of astronomers, including two Moroccans, Zuhair Benkhaldon, director of the Okaimeden Astronomical Observatory, and one of his doctoral students, Abd al-Rahman al-Sobky from the Laboratory of Physics and Physics of High Energies Astronomy at the College of Odor Sciences of Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.
These planets, which are only 120 million years old, will provide researchers with an important opportunity to study them as they are still in their early stages of development, helping scientists understand the formation and development of our system. solar.
It will also be an opportunity for researchers to study its atmosphere due to the convergence of its size with the size of the planet, where theories about how the atmosphere of the outer planets in general can be tested.

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