🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Space Astronomy is learning to find worlds without clearly seeing them. NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a hidden giant planet inside the Beta Pictoris system, located about 63 light years from Earth. The planet, Beta Pictoris d, is likely at least twice the mass of Jupiter. But the discovery method is the real breakthrough. The system is filled with a bright disk of dust and debris that acts like cosmic fog. Traditional imaging struggled to separate the planet from the surrounding light. Webb found it by detecting the chemical fingerprint of its atmosphere. Carbon monoxide. Water vapor. Methane. The planet appeared not simply as a picture, but as a molecular barcode inside the light. That changes the search. The next generation of exoplanet discovery may depend less on finding obvious dots and more on identifying chemistry, motion, and patterns hidden inside noise. At the same time, SpaceX is preparing Starship Flight 1...