Tag: Beta Pictoris

This artist’s impression shows how the planet inside the disc of Beta Pictoris may look. Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. It is located about 60 light-years away towards the constellation of Pictor (the Painter) and is one of the best-known examples of a star surrounded by a dusty debris disc

Massive Exoplanet Nine Times Larger Than Our Jupiter – Discovered In Beta Pictoris System

MessageToEagle.com | August 26, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Beta Pictoris b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an A-type star. Its mass is 11 Jupiters, it takes 21 years

An artist's impression of comets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris.

Astronomy

Three Comets Orbiting The Nearby Star Beta Pictoris – Found By TESS Mission

MessageToEagle.com | May 24, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Just about a year after the launch, NASA’s mission TESS, discovered the first three comets orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris outside our