A strange signal, coming from far beyond our solar system, has been detected for the first time. A team of researchers from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Oregon managed to trace repeating radio emissions from Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an A-type star. It is located roughly 63 light-years away from Earth, El.kz cites NDTV.
The exoplanet was discovered in 2008, and NASA previously reported that the mass of Beta Pictoris b is 11.729 times that of Jupiter. It takes 23.6 years to complete one orbit of its star and is 10.018 AU from its star.
