- Look at Beta Pictoris and send me a description or picture. An exoplanet orbits this star; in fact, the first exoplanet determined optically. While you cannot see the exoplanet with your eye or consumer telescope equipment, it is quite possible you will capture a few photons in your eye or camera.
- Atari 2600: Missile Command (Internet Archive)
Aliens from the planet of Krytol have begun an attack on the planet Zardon. The Krytolians are warriors out to destroy and seize the planet of Zardon. Zardon is the last of the peaceful planets. The Zardonians are skillful and hardworking people. Their cities are built-up and rich in resources. It is truly a planet void of crime and violence.
- Beta Pictoris (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
BETA PIC (Beta Pictoris). Magnificent stars can come in obscure constellations, a fine case in point the Beta star of the small constellation of Pictor, the Easel, which lies just to the west of Canopus in Carina, the Keel of Argo.
- Beta Pictoris (Wikipedia)
Beta Pictoris (abbreviated β Pictoris or β Pic) is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor. It is located 63.4 light-years (19.4 pc) from the Solar System, and is 1.75 times as massive and 8.7 times as luminous as the Sun. The Beta Pictoris system is very young, only 20 to 26 million years old, although it is already in the main sequence stage of its evolution. Beta Pictoris is the title member of the Beta Pictoris moving group, an association of young stars which share the same motion through space and have the same age.