File:Beta Pictoris star system.jpg

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English: An artistic rendition of the Beta Pictoris System, showing the accretion disk, and the two known planets. It was rendered from data acquired with the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The data comes from the GRAVITY system, an adaptive optics assisted, near-infrared instrument for micro-arcsecond precision, narrow-angle, astrometry and interferometric phase referenced imaging of faint celestial objects.
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Artistic rendition of the Beta Pictoris System from visible and infrared images take with the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

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