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A New Planet for Beta Pictoris
August 26 , 2019
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- Astronomers have announced a new giant planet Beta Pictoris c for the Beta Pictoris system, 60 light-years from Earth.
- It is the second exoplanet orbiting young debris disk Beta Pictoris.
- It has a mass around 9 Jupiter masses, and orbits at around 2.7 au from Beta Pictoris.
- Beta Pictoris is located approximately 63 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pictor.
- Beta Pictoris c was detected indirectly through 10 years of observation of radial velocity data from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectroscope.
- It is the project of the European Southern Observatory's ESO 3.6 m Telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
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