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The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a stunning photo of alien asteroid belts for the first time in infrared light. Astronomers have found that these structures around the star Fomalhaut are more complex than the asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt in our solar system. Webb found three debris belts extending out to 14 billion miles from the star. The inner belts, never seen before, were disclosed by the Webb telescope for the first time.
These debris disks, consisting of dust from collisions of larger bodies like asteroids and comets, offer insights into the structure of exoplanetary systems. Fomalhaut's dust ring was discovered in 1983, and its study has evolved through various telescopes, including Hubble, ALMA, and now Webb. The belts are believed to be shaped by the gravitational forces of unseen planets.
The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a stunning photo of alien asteroid belts for the first time in infrared light. Astronomers have found that these structures around the star Fomalhaut are more complex than the asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt in our solar system. Webb found three debris belts extending out to 14 billion miles from the star. The inner belts, never seen before, were disclosed by the Webb telescope for the first time.
These debris disks, consisting of dust from collisions of larger bodies like asteroids and comets, offer insights into the structure of exoplanetary systems. Fomalhaut's dust ring was discovered in 1983, and its study has evolved through various telescopes, including Hubble, ALMA, and now Webb. The belts are believed to be shaped by the gravitational forces of unseen planets.
