A Giant Planet Imaged In The Disk Of The Young Star Beta Pictoris

Here, we show that the similar to 10-million-year-old beta Pictoris system hosts a massive giant planet, beta Pictoris b, located 8 to 15 astronomical units from the star. This result confirms that gas giant planets form rapidly within disks and validates the use of disk structures as fingerprints of embedded planets. Among the few planet...更多