A bright star, visible in Earth’s Southern sky, has a secret. The well known Fomalhaut debris disk, imaged here by @NASAWebb, has an asteroid belt, inner rings and an undulating structure that hints at unseen planets! http://go.nasa.gov/42dH7h6 #NASAExoplanets
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.
Aviva Gary
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