Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

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Monday, May 8, 2023 - 11:00
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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.