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Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet β Pictoris d
(text post because it's one of those two papers on arχiv on the same day situations).
A 3rd planet in everyone's favorite edge-on disk system was found by teams using the VLT and JWST, with initial orbit (~30 au), mass (~2-4 Jupiters), and atmospheric features (including CO2 and water): via https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23789 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23801
u/UmbralRaptor — 7 days ago