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Young giant gas planet Beta Pic B refuses to reveal its origin
The young planetary system of the 23-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris (short: Beta Pic) is regarded as an iconic circumstellar dust disk, which hosts at least three giant gas planets.
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The discovery of Beta Pic b, a massive gas planet, has left astronomers puzzled about its origin. Beta Pic b is one of at least three giant gas planets in the Beta Pictoris system, a 23-million-year-old star with a notable circumstellar dust disk. The planet's mass is approximately 11 times that of Jupiter, making it the most massive of its kind in the system. The difficulty in determining the origin of Beta Pic b stems from its unusual characteristics, which do not align with current theories of planetary formation.
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