An international team of astronomers has discovered a third planet, Beta Pictoris d, orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. This newly found exoplanet is the dimmest ever detected via direct imaging from Earth and one of the smallest in mass. The discovery was made using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, spanning over a decade of observations and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. AI
RANK_REASON The cluster contains a scientific paper detailing the discovery of a new exoplanet. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.1]
- Beta Pictoris
- Beta Pictoris b
- Beta Pictoris d
- European Southern Observatory
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Very Large Telescope
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