Faintest-Ever Exoplanet Unmasked: Beta Pictoris d Revealed from Earth
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After more than a decade of archival data, astronomers directly imaged Beta Pictoris d, a roughly 2.4 Jupiter-mass gas giant about 63 light-years away, making it the faintest exoplanet ever seen directly from Earth and helping explain the star system’s debris disk; the find places Beta Pictoris among the few multi-planet systems detectable via direct imaging and may be followed up by the ELT.
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