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Beta Pictoris b

Astronomical discovery
Beta Pictoris b is an exoplanet orbiting the young debris disk A-type main sequence star Beta Pictoris located approximately 63 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pictor. It has a mass around 13 Jupiter masses and a radius around... Wikipedia
Discovered: November 18, 2008
Mean radius: 1.46±0.01 RJ
Distance: about 63 light-years
Detection method: Direct imaging
Eccentricity: 0.106+0.007; −0.006
Equatorial rotation velocity: 19.9±1.0 km/s