{"id":11141,"date":"2026-07-21T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:24:15","slug":"eso-15-07-2026-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/eso-15-07-2026-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15\/07\/2026 &#8211; A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b \u2014 the first planet discovered in the same system \u2014 and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground. After spotting the planet using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), the team found it had been hiding in archive observations spanning more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2609\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story in the ESO Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png\" alt=\"Immagine VLT dell'esopianeta Beta Pictoris d (Crediti: ESO\/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.)\" class=\"wp-image-11144\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VLT image of the Beta Pictoris d exoplanet\u00a0(Credit: ESO\/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15\/07\/2026 &#8211; A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b \u2014 the first planet discovered in the same system \u2014 and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground. After spotting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[759,390,365],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-beta-pictoris-2","tag-eso-2","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",906,782,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",150,129,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",300,259,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",768,663,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",906,782,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",906,782,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2609.png",906,782,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>15\/07\/2026 &#8211; A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b \u2014 the first planet discovered in the same system \u2014 and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground. After spotting the planet using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), the team found it had been hiding in archive observations spanning more than a decade. Read the full story in the ESO Press Release VLT image of the Beta Pictoris d exoplanet\u00a0(Credit: ESO\/B.&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}