Powerful new planet finder snaps a direct image of an exoplanet

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After 10 years of painstaking development, the Gemini Planet Imager has returned its first image of a distant exoplanet. Behold Beta Pictoris b, a massive planet several times larger than Jupiter — and over 63 light-years from Earth. Read more…        

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Powerful new planet finder snaps a direct image of an exoplanet

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