
Beta Pictoris d is 100 times fainter, but finally revealed after 10 years
Astronomers directly imaged the faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth, resolving a long-running dust-disk puzzle.
By Khalid Al-Harbi·· 4 min

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Astronomers directly imaged the faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth, resolving a long-running dust-disk puzzle.
Astronomers finally confirm the faint planet by reanalyzing ESO’s VLT archive, turning 10-year noise into a headline.

A spectroscopy-first detection finds the system’s third imaged planet and expands how exoplanets get discovered.