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Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b orbiting β Pictoris star
Published on Sep 20, 2015
The star β Pictoris (Beta Pictoris) lies about 63 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Pictor (The Painter’s Easel). Planet Beta Pictoris b is a gas giant and astronomers captured the best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit. The images, captured between November 2013 to April 2015, show β Pic b as it moves through 1 ½ years of its 22-year orbital period.
Credit:
ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger
M. Millar-Blanchaer, University of Toronto; R. Marchis (SETI Institute)
β Pictoris' inner disk in polarized light and new orbital parameters for β Pictoris b
M. Millar-Blanchaer et al., Astrophysical Journal, 2015
An earlier direct image of the planet Beta Pictoris b, via the Gemini Planet Imager instrument. This image is from 2014.
http://earthsky.org/space/watch-an-exoplanet-orbit-its-star
Published on Sep 20, 2015
The star β Pictoris (Beta Pictoris) lies about 63 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Pictor (The Painter’s Easel). Planet Beta Pictoris b is a gas giant and astronomers captured the best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit. The images, captured between November 2013 to April 2015, show β Pic b as it moves through 1 ½ years of its 22-year orbital period.
Credit:
ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger
M. Millar-Blanchaer, University of Toronto; R. Marchis (SETI Institute)
β Pictoris' inner disk in polarized light and new orbital parameters for β Pictoris b
M. Millar-Blanchaer et al., Astrophysical Journal, 2015
An earlier direct image of the planet Beta Pictoris b, via the Gemini Planet Imager instrument. This image is from 2014.
http://earthsky.org/space/watch-an-exoplanet-orbit-its-star
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