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Webb Telescope Discovers Third Planet in Beta Pictoris System
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered exoplanet Beta Pictoris d, a giant about twice Jupiter's mass orbiting 63 light-years away. The planet was found via spectroscopy, not direct imaging, making Beta Pictoris only the second system with three imaged planets. The discovery helps explain the system's debris disk structures.
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