Webb telescope found the missing architect of another star system
Astronomers found the missing giant architect of a famous young star system — a world that lines up almost eerily well with what theorists had predicted but had never seen. This exoplanet, about 63 light-years away in space, appears to be the long-hidden sculptor of the Beta Pictoris system, carving up the star's surrounding junkyard of dust, rock, ice, and gas. For years, models of the system hinted that something big was creating a sharp inner edge of the debris disk — so
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