08/05/2023
Since 1983, astronomers have known that the young star Fomalhaut was surrounded by a dusty disk. But that disk has never been seen in this much detail.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope studied Fomalhaut in mid-infrared light, and the resulting image displays three nested belts extending to 14 billion miles (22.5 billion kilometers) from the star.
The inner belts were revealed by Webb for the first time.
What unseen objects might be sculpting these rings?
