Astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The newly identified world, Beta Pictoris d, is far fainter than the star’s first known planet.
Beta Pictoris is a well-studied young system already known for planets and a debris disk. Adding a fainter third planet expands the known architecture of that system.
Faintness relative to the first known planet implies a harder detection and likely different mass or orbital properties. The Universe Today–linked summary names the planet Beta Pictoris d but does not give its orbital period here.
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Sources:
https://www.universetoday.com/