Astronomers have discovered a second exoplanet hiding out in an intriguing star system
The Beta Pictoris system is 63.4 light-years from Earth. The star is very bright, and it's surrounded by a giant disk made of dust, gas and debris -- the leftovers of its formation. The star is also twice the mass of our sun.To astronomers, this 23 million-year-old-star is quite young. Studying Beta Pictoris for the past 30 years has allowed them to watch the process of a planetary system as it forms around the star.
finds potentially habitable super-Earth 31 light-years awayThese movements change the light wavelength of the star, going between red and blue depending on the location of the planet. Tracing the shifts can help astronomers find planets. And this is the firs time a planet has been found around a star like this, according to the researchers. This year, NASA's planet-hunting satellite
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