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Faintest Planet Ever Captured | Tulsa News
Astronomers just found a hidden gas giant planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris — and it’s the faintest ever directly imaged from Earth. Two independent teams, using the ESO telescope in Chile and NASA’s Webb Space Telescope, stumbled upon it while studying other planets in the system. This Jupiter-sized world takes 91 years to orbit its star, and since the system is only 20 million years old, it’s a cosmic baby still forming. The discovery, made possible by cutting-edge tech and sheer persistence, offers a rare look at how planets like ours might have formed — and proves that even the…
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