VIDEO | First shoot of a neighboring exoplanet orbiting his star

The VLT telescope (Very Large Telescope) captured an unprecedented series of images showing the pbadage of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris B around its parent star.

This young and mbadive exoplanet was first discovered in 2008 with the NACO instrument in the VLT. Since then, astronomers have followed the exoplanet and made observations from late 2014 to late 2016 with the VHT SPHERE instrument (high spectropolar polarimetric exoplanet search).

Result of this work, the ESO (European Southern Observatory) produced a video describing the pbadage of Beta Pictoris b around its star host.

Beta Pictoris is the second brightest star in the Pictor constellation. It is located at a distance of 64 light-years from the solar system, it is 1.75 times more mbadive than the Sun and it has 8.7 times more brightness. The system is very young, it has between 8 and 20 million years.

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