๐ญ Webb Found a Hidden Giant Planet in Beta Pictoris โ ID'd Only By Its Atmosphere
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered a third giant planet lurking in the Beta Pictoris system, detected not by direct imaging but by reading the chemical fingerprint of its atmosphere โ a brand-new detection method. The planet holds the widest orbit of any known world in the system and was hiding in a place astronomers had already studied extensively. How many more planets in systems we think we understand might still be hiding out there?
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