Just as we're ramping up the exploration of asteroids and other small bodies in our own solar system, @NASAWebb has revealed that a young, nearby star hosts a complex system of three dust belts – and possibly a collision occurring between protoplanets https://go.nasa.gov/3HQfvWX
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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)