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Most exoplanets never show up in a photo. So how did JWST directly image a gas giant 7.6 times the mass of Jupiter, 12 light-years away? The answer comes down to three things: brightness contrast, distance, and temperature.
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.