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Astronomy
Beta Pictoris d: The Faintest Exoplanet Ever Directly Imaged From Earth
Astronomers pulled a third giant planet, Beta Pictoris d, out of 11 years of VLT data and confirmed it with JWST — at ~2.4 Jupiter masses and 100x fainter than Beta Pic b, it's the faintest planet ever directly imaged from the ground.
