Astronomers have found a third giant planet around Beta Pictoris, one of the best-known young planetary systems near Earth. The discovery is striking because the planet was not first picked out as a bright dot in a telescope image. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found it in the spectrum of light coming from the system: […]

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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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Durante 11 anos esteve ali, praticamente à vista de todos. Entretanto, foi possível perceber que as imagens antigas escondiam um dos exoplanetas mais ténues alguma vez captados diretamente a partir da Terra.

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Using the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have measured the ratio of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere of the young exoplanet Beta Pictoris, offering new insights into how giant planets form.

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