Tag: beta Pictoris b

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

Direct Wircam image of 2MASS 0249 system taken wiht CFHT's infrared camera WIRCam. 2MASS 0249c is located 2000 astronomical units from the host brown dwarfs that are unresolved in this image. Credits: T. Dupuy, M. Liu

Astronomy

Famous Exoplanet Has A Doppelgänger – Astronomers Say

MessageToEagle.com | July 17, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelgänger differs in one very important