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Beta Pictoris' Third Planet Was Hiding in a Photo Taken 10 Years Ago

July 24, 2026

Astronomers just found a third planet, d, orbiting Beta Pictoris through direct imaging. But when they went back through old archives, it turned out the planet had already been photographed more than 11 years earlier. SORABUMI explains how a world 100 times fainter than its neighbor slipped past notice for so long.

Searching for Another Earth #exoplanets#direct imaging#Beta Pictoris#VLT#JWST

We Finally Caught a Planet Being Born — On Video

June 8, 2026

In June 2026, the SPHERE instrument at ESO's VLT captured four years of observations that reveal, for the first time, a protoplanetary disk actually rotating. The AB Aurigae system is messier than theory predicted — and that's exciting.

Stars and Galaxies #planet formation#protoplanetary disk#AB Aurigae#ESO#VLT#SPHERE#exoplanets