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Beta Pictoris b

Beta Pictoris b (abbreviated as β Pic b) is an exoplanet orbiting the young debris disk, A-type main sequence star, Beta Pictoris located approximately 63 light-years (19.4 parsecs, or 6×10km) away from Earth in the constellation of Pictor. It has a mass of around 10 Jupiter masses and a radius that's either 37% or 68% larger than Jupiter's. It orbits at 10 AU from Beta Pictoris, which is about 3.7 times farther than the orbit of Beta Pictoris c. It orbits close to the plane of the debris disk orbiting the star, with a low eccentricity and a period of 23.77 years.