๐ญ Webb Found a Hidden Third Planet in One of Astronomy's Most-Studied Star Systems
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered a giant planet โ Beta Pictoris d โ lurking inside a planetary system astronomers have studied for decades. Concealed by a thick dust disk, Webb spotted it by reading its atmospheric fingerprints: carbon monoxide, water vapor, and methane. This marks the first directly imaged planet found primarily through spectroscopy, a promising new way to find hidden worlds. What else might be lurking in systems we thought we knew completely?
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