Wow, another astonishing research from Webb last week :astonished face:
A system of dust/asteroid belts around a young star Fomalhaut in ~25 ly away from the Sun. With help of JWT's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) we now can see all the inner belts and unlike our Solar system it has 3 visible dust/asteroid belts in sum. How cool is that?
nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/…
Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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