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    Beta Pictoris (abbreviated β Pictoris or β Pic) is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor. It is located 63.4 light-years (19.4 pc) from...
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    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...
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  • The Beta Pictoris Moving Group is a young moving group of stars located relatively near Earth. A moving group, in astronomy, is a group of stars that...
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    PicSat (category Beta Pictoris)
    nanosatellite, designed to measure the transit of Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet which orbits the star Beta Pictoris. PicSat was designed and built by a team of...
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  • Beta Pictoris c (abbreviated as β Pic c) is the second exoplanet discovered orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, located approximately 63 light-years...
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    Pictor (redirect from Pictoris)
    brightest star is Alpha Pictoris, a white main-sequence star around 97 light-years away from Earth. Pictor also hosts RR Pictoris, a cataclysmic variable...
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  • J21140802-2251358 Beta Pictoris Moving group 2013 2MASS J2208+2921 11–13 21–27 115 L3γ Candidate; radial velocity needed Beta Pictoris Moving group 2014...
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    the "fabulous four": Vega, Beta Pictoris, Fomalhaut, and Epsilon Eridani. Subsequently, direct images of the Beta Pictoris disk showed irregularities...
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    similar to the masses of directly imaged planets around HR 8799 and beta Pictoris. However, it is unclear whether ROXs 42Bb formed like these planets...
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    planetary systems. The first exocomets were detected in 1987 around Beta Pictoris, a very young A-type main-sequence star. There are now a total of 11...
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    AT Microscopii are probably a wide triple system and members of the Beta Pictoris moving group. Nicknamed "Speedy Mic", BO Microscopii is a star with...
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    other than the Sun. The first exocomets were detected in 1987 around Beta Pictoris, a very young A-type main-sequence star. There are now (as of February...
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    Gaia spacecraft to Hipparcos data for the Beta Pictoris system was able to measure the mass of Beta Pictoris b, constraining it to 11±2 Jupiter masses...
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    Bailey VP, et al. (2017). "1–2.4μm Near-IR Spectrum of the Giant Planet β Pictoris b Obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager". The Astronomical Journal. 153...
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    Beta Pictoris with its planet Beta Pictoris b, the light-blue dot off-center, as seen in infrared. It combines two images, the inner disc is at 3.6 μm...
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    PSO J318.5−22 (category Beta Pictoris moving group)
    brown dwarf. It is approximately 80 light-years away and belongs to the Beta Pictoris moving group. The object was discovered in 2013 in images taken by the...
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    planet formation processes, including exocomets and other planetesimals, around Beta Pictoris, a very young type A V star (NASA artist's conception)....
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  • spins. Beta Pictoris b's distance from its star is 9 AU. At such distances the rotation of Jovian planets is not slowed by tidal effects. Beta Pictoris b is...
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    Denebola (redirect from Beta Leonis)
    formed out of such a disk, Denebola and similar stars such as Vega and Beta Pictoris may be candidate locations for extrasolar planets. Kinematic studies...
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    Directly imaged planet Beta Pictoris b...
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    AU Microscopii (category Beta Pictoris moving group)
    S2CID 34114530. Barrado y Navascués, David; et al. (August 1, 1999). "The age of beta Pictoris". The Astrophysical Journal. 520 (2): L123–L126. arXiv:astro-ph/9905242...
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    olivine has also been detected in the planetesimal belt around the star Beta Pictoris. Minerals in the olivine group crystallize in the orthorhombic system...
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    data. The telescope's scientific discoveries include direct imaging of Beta Pictoris b, the first extrasolar planet so imaged, tracking individual stars...
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    AB Pictoris (abbreviated AB Pic, also catalogued as HD 44627) is a K-type main-sequence star, located 163.5 light-years away in the southern constellation...
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    stars. A-type star systems known to feature planets include HD 15082, Beta Pictoris, HR 8799 and HD 95086. Within 40 light years: Delta Capricorni is likely...
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    stars—most of which have ages in the range of ~10 million years (e.g. Beta Pictoris, 51 Ophiuchi) to billions of years (e.g. Tau Ceti). These systems are...
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    protoplanetary disks, such as TW Hydrae or directly imaged exoplanets, such as Beta Pictoris b or GU Psc b. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting...
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  • Lagrange has devoted much of her career to the analysis of the star Beta Pictoris in the constellation Pictor. During her thesis in the 1980s, she studied...
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    group, ~8 million-year-old TW Hydrae association, ~12 million-year-old Beta Pictoris moving group, and possibly the ~30–50 million-year-old IC 2602 open...
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    parsecs (330 light-years). The association has a similar size to the Beta Pictoris moving group (BPMG) and contains, like BPMG, more than 12 stars with...
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