Jason Wang, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in the United States, converted 75% of the orbit of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b into a video.

Beta Pictoris b is a young exoplanet with a mass about 12 times the mass of Jupiter and orbiting its central star about twice its length. This celestial body, which is about 63 light-years from Earth, has been observed by researchers for a long time. The observations have now been summarized in a very special recording by Jason Wang, an astrophysicist from Northwestern University.

The specialist collected data recorded on the exoplanet over the past 17 years, then condensed it all into a 10-second time-lapse video. Thanks to this, you can see how the planet spends most of its 23-year orbit – about 75 percent – around the star Beta Pictoris.

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the Britannica The star system may be about 26 million years old, and the planet is eight times farther from its star than Earth is from the sun. Beta Pictoris has a mass equivalent to 1.75 solar masses, and its luminosity is 8.7 times greater than our Sun. Therefore, its exoplanet is very bright.

The celestial body was observed with three instruments: one at the Gemini Observatory in the United States, and the other two at the European Southern Observatory. Experts have covered the star because its brightness will overwhelm the brightness of the exoplanet.





Wang had previously shot another time-lapse video. At the beginning of the year, it collected 12 years of monitoring data from the HR8799 system. The star is located 133.3 light-years from Earth. Here you can see many exoplanets orbiting the star.

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