Dim Jovian World Emerges Around a Young Star

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope independently detected a faint, Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, making it the dimmest exoplanet directly imaged from Earth. The planet, slightly larger than Jupiter, completes an orbit every 91 years around a system about 20 million years old, offering a rare glimpse into planetary formation as the system stabilizes after its birth.