Beta Pictoris b
Super Jupiter orbiting Beta Pictoris
Beta Pictoris b
Beta Pictoris b (abbreviated as β Pic b) is an exoplanet orbiting the young debris disk, A-type main sequence star, Beta Pictoris located approximately 63 light-years (19.4 parsecs, or 6×1014 km) away from Earth in the constellation of Pictor. It has a mass of around 10 Jupiter masses and a radius some 37% to 68% larger than Jupiter's. It orbits at 10 AU from Beta Pictoris, which is about 3.7 times farther than the orbit of Beta Pictoris c. It orbits close to the plane of the debris disk orbiting the star, with a low eccentricity and a period of 23.77 years.
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