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Astronomers Directly Image Planet 63 Light-Years Away – ExtremeTech
Researchers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile recently turned it toward a star called Beta Pictoris to hunt for a gas giant, and they snapped an ima…
The last few decades of astronomical surveys have revealed several thousand exoplanets in the cosmos, but very few have ever been seen directly. We can only infer the presence of most exoplanets from their gravity or ability to block starlight. However, researchers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile recently turned it toward a star 63 light-years away called Beta Pictoris to hunt for a gas giant (Beta Pictoris c), and they snapped an image of it.
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