This Exoplanet Hid for 10 Years Before Astronomers Finally Found It

This Exoplanet Hid for 10 Years Before Astronomers Finally Found It
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/SJ5GIi6)

A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b — the first planet discovered in the same system — and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground. After spotting the planet using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), the team found it had been hiding in archive observations spanning more than a decade.

July 17, 2026 at 01:26AM
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