2024-03-16 07:02:49
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Hespress – Abdel Aziz Akram Saturday 16 March 2024 – 07:00
In a step that distinguishes it from other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, Morocco joined the international project to prepare the largest telescope, represented by Mustafa Bousder, an astrophysics researcher who specializes in the field of black holes and gravitational waves. This project is supervised by a number of international space agencies, including NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
This project is considered one of the most important international projects in the field of astronomy and space, considering that it is a project that aims to prepare the largest telescope in the world (Lisa), which will be launched into outer space by 2035, in parallel with work on another project that aims to prepare ground infrastructure for monitoring gravitational waves, which is It is called Nanograv, and more than 180 researchers at the global level, from regarding 80 institutions, are involved in this second project.
In this regard, Mustafa Bousder, the Moroccan representative in the two projects, said, “The fact that I was chosen to participate in these scientific and international workshops comes as a result of my diverse research in the field of astrophysics, especially on the topics of galaxy movement and the collapse of objects inside black holes, in addition to my interviews within the framework of a group of Scientific projects with leading international scientists, including Nobel laureates in physics.”
Bousder added, in a statement to Hespress, that “the project is one of the most important scientific projects ever, given that monitoring gravitational waves with ground and space observatories will enable the detection of places in the universe that are very far away and cannot be monitored with light or ordinary telescopes.” While physicists confirm that monitoring these waves in the future requires adopting more advanced technology than the one adopted today, which only employs electromagnetic waves.”
The researcher in astrophysics and specialist in the field of black holes and gravitational waves explained that “the Kingdom’s participation in this project will enable it to benefit from modern observational techniques that in the future will rely on gravitational waves for the purpose of discovering space, in light of the international partnership that brought together countries, organizations and space agencies for the success of This project, which seeks to install the largest telescope in the world in space, will include three parts spaced apart from one another,” noting that “the ground-based part of the project is currently being worked on, especially in North American countries.”
The researcher at Mohammed V University in Rabat pointed out that “Morocco is the only country participating in this global event from the Middle East and North Africa region; This constitutes a positive sign, given that he will be able in the future to obtain information regarding the outer space of the Earth and create a data bank regarding it,” he said, noting that “Morocco has a continuing interest in space and all matters related to it, which makes it a pioneer in this field in Africa.”
The same speaker concluded that “the growing Moroccan ambition in this context remains legitimate, given that the Kingdom can take additional steps in promoting scientific research on space. While it still needs a national space agency, as is the case with Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates.”
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