NASA's Webb telescope discovers giant planet hiding in one of astronomy's most famous systems
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope identified Beta Pictoris d, a giant exoplanet with at least twice Jupiter's mass orbiting the star Beta Pictoris 63 light-years away, making it the second known planetary system with at least three directly imaged planets and demonstrating a new method for detecting exoplanets through atmospheric chemical signatures rather than direct imaging.
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