Very Large Telescope finds hidden exoplanet in unique stellar system
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The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile has helped discover an exoplanet in a unique stellar system called HIP 81208. Until now, this system, which is located about 480 light-years away from Earth, was known to contain a central massive star, a brown dwarf, and another low-mass star orbiting further away. The new planet in this system came to light when astronomers were reanalyzing pictures snapped by the Very Large Telescope, one of the world's largest telescopes.