Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have captured the first direct images of the recently-discovered giant planet Beta Pictoris c.
Beta Pictoris (β Pictoris) is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor, about 63 light years away from Earth.
It hosts a circumstellar disk of gas and dust and a huge number of comets, some of which were seen falling onto the star.
Beta Pictoris is orbited by at least two 20-million-year-old giant planets: Beta Pictoris b and c.
Discovered in November 2008, Beta Pictoris b is a gas giant between 10 and 11 times the mass of Jupiter.
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Beta Pictoris (β Pictoris) is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor, about 63 light years away from Earth.
It hosts a circumstellar disk of gas and dust and a huge number of comets, some of which were seen falling onto the star.
Beta Pictoris is orbited by at least two 20-million-year-old giant planets: Beta Pictoris b and c.
Discovered in November 2008, Beta Pictoris b is a gas giant between 10 and 11 times the mass of Jupiter.
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