Faint new planet is found after cosmic hide-and-seek

Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive gas giant planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, marking the dimmest planet ever directly imaged from Earth. Two independent teams, one using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and another using NASA's Webb Space Telescope, made the discovery within days of each other. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter and takes 91 years to orbit its star.