Not the Host

They had radio from systems before. The dish could not say which mouth held it.

MeerKAT caught repeating bursts sixty-three light-years out. Position sits with Beta Pictoris b — not the host — once the systematics are in.

Rapid. Strongly circular. Electron cyclotron maser — the mechanism Jupiter keeps when charged rain runs its field.

Highest frequency names at least twelve hundred fifty gauss at the emitting region.

Not a message. Not a lighthouse. The looking is the burst that stayed with the planet while the star kept quiet.