Leiden Observatory Masters graduate Valerie Bakker leads a paper on “The Hill sphere transits of Beta Pictoris c and the search for another 1981-like event” where we (sadly) did not find circumplanetary dust… but maybe it’s already condensed into #exomoons ..? #astrodon #exoplanets

A plot showing the best fit of the 1981 brightening event seen towards Beta Pictoris using three different photometric surveys, shown as wiggling lines in red, green and blue.
Matthew Kenworthy @kenworthy