2026-07-15 12:04 UTC
Known as Beta Pictoris d, it is the faintest exoplanet ever directly imaged from Earth.
This is a major feat, as direct imaging only works for #exoplanets bright enough to show up next to their much brighter host stars.
When the team examined the ESO & JWST archives, they found this planet had actually been hiding in data spanning more than 10 years.
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📷 ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.
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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 12:07
Beta Pictoris d is only 2.4 times more massive than Jupiter, making it one of the lightest exoplanets ever imaged from the ground. Its two other siblings are each around ten times the mass of Jupiter. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2609/ 3/3 📹 ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.