Beta Pictoris b
Webb Blocks the Star to See a Debris Disk Around Beta Pictoris
You think you know someone, then you see them in a slightly different way and BAM, they surprise you. I’m…
Watch an Actual Exoplanet Orbit its Star for 17 Years
Searching for exoplanets is incredibly difficult given their literal astronomical distances from Earth, which is why a myriad of methods…
Those are Exoplanets. You’re Looking at Actual Exoplanets 63 Light-Years Away!
By combining two exoplanet detection methods for the first time ever, the GRAVITY collaboration has confirmed the existence of a…
Direct Observations of a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light-Years Away
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO astronomers directly observed Beta Pictoris b over the course of four…
Watch This Amazing Video of an Exoplanet in Motion
Exoplanet Beta Pic b orbiting Beta Pictoris from Dunlap Institute on Vimeo. Just. Wow. The motion of an alien world,…
Spin! Exoplanet’s Day Finishes Blazing Fast Compared To Earth
Between the time you got to work this morning and the time you leave today -- assuming an eight-hour work…
Giant Planet May Be Lurking In ‘Poisonous’ Gas Around Beta Pictoris
A Saturn-mass planet might be lurking in the debris surrounding Beta Pictoris, new measurements of a debris field around the…
Super-sensitive Camera Captures a Direct Image of an Exoplanet
The world's newest and most powerful exoplanet imaging instrument, the recently-installed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) on the 8-meter Gemini South…
Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly
[/caption] For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves…