Space Agency Releases Photos Of Exoplanet Orbiting Around Star
(WorldNews Germany)

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a series of images showing the orbit of a planet around a distant star, IFL Science reports. Captured by the ESO´s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the images show the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b making its way around its host star, 63 light-years from Earth. The planet orbits at a distance of about 1.3 billion kilometers (800 million miles), slightly closer than Saturn orbits our own Sun. Beta Pictoris b is about 1.5 times the size of Jupiter and about 13 times more massive. It takes about 20 years to orbit its star, and at the moment it´s the only known planet in the Beta Pictoris system. Despite the great distance of its orbit, this...