Bet

Its story

Beta Pictoris is one of the most celebrated young stars in modern astronomy. Barely 12 million years old, it is surrounded by a nearly edge-on debris disk —the first ever directly imaged around another star— in which at least two giant planets, Beta Pic b and c, have been confirmed. At 63 light-years, in the Painter's Easel, it remains a living laboratory where the processes that shaped our own Solar System unfold in real time.