:INFO
Gas giant around bet Pic
It is 1.26 times Jupiter's radius, closest in size to Jupiter, and 762.8 times Earth's mass. A year there lasts 90.9 years, on an orbit 67.2 times Mercury's distance from the Sun. Its equilibrium temperature is 600 K, hotter than any desert.

:STATS
[icon:TARGET] Radius | 14.12 Earth radii
[icon:CHART] Mass | 762.8 Earth masses
[icon:FIRE] Equilibrium temperature | 600 K (measured)
[icon:CLOCK] One year | 90.9 years
[icon:BOLT] Orbit radius | 26.0000 AU
[icon:USERS] Distance | 64 light-years

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What has been measured here and what has not
[ ] A radius from transit photometry. Yes.
[ ] A weight, not just a width. Yes.
[ ] A density, the one clue to composition. No.
[ ] How far out it orbits. Yes.
[ ] An observed temperature. Yes.
[ ] An eccentricity, so the orbit shape is known. Yes.

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What the picture gives
A position, a brightness, and light that can be split into a spectrum.

:NOTE
Found by Paranal Observatory in 2026.

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This is one of the rare planets that has actually been photographed. Fewer than a hundred of the thousands known were found this way, and they are mostly young giants far from their stars.

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bet Pic has 3 known planets. Systems like this are the ones where architecture can be studied instead of guessed at.

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Its orbit is noticeably elliptical, eccentricity 0.44, so the starlight it receives changes substantially over one year.

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:LINK
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/bet%20Pic%20d
NASA Exoplanet Archive: every published measurement of this planet