ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an unprecedented series of images showing the passage of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b around its parent star. This young massive exoplanet was ...

Beta Pictoris b unique in the family of directly-imaged exoplanets because it is close enough to its star to complete an orbit in just twenty-five years. This orbit period means astronomers are less ...

This footage of Beta Pictoris b, constructed with the help of AI, represents the longest video of an exoplanet to date. New time-lapse footage shows the 17-year-long journey of a massive alien ...

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This exoplanet is the first to have its rotation ... [Read the Full Story Here] On Beta Pictoris b, a planet still forming nearly 64 light-years away, a day lasts only 8.1 hours.

Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have, for the first time, determined the rotation rate of an exoplanet. Beta Pictoris b has been found to have a day that lasts only eight hours.

also holds true for exoplanets." "This must be some universal consequence of the way planets form," says de Kok, co-author of the Beta Pictoris b study. The study of Beta Pictoris and its planet ...

Beta Pictoris B takes almost 25 years to make a lap around ... This huge, bright world became one of the first exoplanets astronomers ever directly imaged, and since its discovery in 2003, it ...

17 years of real footage of an exoplanet (Beta Pic b) The time-lapse video shows a planet called Beta Pictoris b, located 63 light-years away in the constellation Pictor. The planet is big and its ...

Illustration: ESO L. Calçada/N. Risinger Beta Pictoris b is a young exoplanet about 12 times as massive as Jupiter, with an orbit nearly twice as long. Now, a timelapse video of the planet’s ...

According to NASA, 1,703 planets orbiting 1,033 stars have been found so far, but very little is known about these planets beyond some deductions based on their orbits. That veil is lifting though ...

Next year, due to a quirk of geometry, it’ll be possible for astronomers to search for moons or other debris around the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. They won’t be able to see the planet itself, ...