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Description	English: The newly discovered third planet orbiting Beta Pictoris, Beta Pictoris d, appeared in reconstructed imagery from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph). NIRSpec’s Integral Field Unit (IFU) was used to map chemical contents of the Beta Pictoris system. This allowed researchers to confirm the bright point of light, as see in the image, was actually a planet by detecting its chemical composition. Modeling suggests its orbit is comparable to the region occupied by Neptune in our own solar system.
Date	14 July 2026
Source	Beta Pictoris System (NIRSpec IFU Image Annotated)
Author	Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Aidan Gibbs (UC San Diego), Jean-Baptiste Ruffio (UC San Diego); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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