ESO Unveils ‘Stunning’ Timelapse Of The Alien Planet Beta Pictoris B

Beta Pictoris b is one of the most extensively studied exoplanets in our cosmic neighborhood. Discovered in 2008, this alien world is located a mere 63 light-years away in the constellation of Pictor and orbits a giant star known as Beta Pictoris.

As the Inquisitr previously reported, Beta Pictoris b is a mammoth planet about 13 times more massive than Jupiter and with a radius almost 50 percent larger than that of our gas giant.

This qualifies Beta Pictoris b as a super-Jupiter. Compared to Earth, this exoplanet is a veritable behemoth, packing about 3,000 times more mass. Meanwhile, its parent star is around 1.8 times more massive than the sun and shines 10 times brighter.

According to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Beta Pictoris b sits relatively close to its star, orbiting it from a distance of nearly 1.3 billion kilometers away (approximately 808,000 miles). That’s roughly the same distance as between Saturn and the sun.

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