Astronomers have detected radio emission directly from an exoplanet for the first time, tracing it to Beta Pictoris b, roughly 63 light-years from Earth.
The team, led by Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, used South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope array to capture the repeating bursts, according to a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server that has not yet undergone peer review.
