Beta Pictoris d remained hidden for years because it lies within one of the brightest debris disks known, according to NASA | World News

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the

Beta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighbors

"The new planet is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b, the famous planet in the same system, making it the faintest exoplanet ever imaged directly from Earth."

The new exoplanet, named ‘Beta Pictoris d’, is the third to be found contained within the Beta Pictoris planetary system.

Beta Pictoris d remained hidden for years because it lies within one of the brightest debris disks known, according to NASA | World News