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Beta Pictoris b

Gas giant exoplanet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, roughly 64 light-years from Earth, with about ten times Jupiter's mass.

Known aliases

  • Beta Pic b
  • β Pictoris b

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

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MeerKAT pins repeating radio bursts to the giant planet Beta Pictoris b

The team used distant quasars as fixed reference points to separate the planet's signal from its star's, then read a magnetic field of at least 1,250 gauss off the emission. The preprint has not been peer reviewed.

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Reality

Evidence66
Adoption
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Hype gap+12
Incentives40
Confidence72