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Faintest Planet Ever Seen | San Antonio News
Astronomers have finally caught a cosmic ghost — a faint gas giant planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, spotted independently by two teams using different telescopes. This Jupiter-sized world, located 63 light-years away and taking 91 years to orbit its star, is the dimmest planet ever directly imaged from Earth. Found in old data by a Scottish-German team and by chance by a California-based crew using the Webb Space Telescope, the discovery offers a rare glimpse into a planetary system still in its infancy — just 20 million years old. With fewer than 100 exoplanets ever directly…
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