Astronomers Discover and Directly Image Third Planet in Beta Pictoris System

This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the right. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Ralf Crawford, STScI.

Named Beta Pictoris d, the newly-discovered world is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b — the first planet discovered around the A5-type star Beta Pictoris — and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground.

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