This Week NASA: Webb’s Surprising Look at Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt, TROPICS CubeSats Launched
This artist’s illustration depicts a collision of two icy, dusty bodies orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away. This may have caused an expanding cloud of very fine dust particles. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have now discovered three nested debris belts surrounding the young star. These belts, which could be carved by the gravitational forces of unseen planets, provide insights into the structure of exoplanetary systems. Credit: ESA, NASA and M.
This image of the dusty debris disk surrounding the young star Fomalhaut is from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument . It reveals three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles from the star. The inner belts – which had never been seen before – were revealed by Webb for the first time. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, András Gáspár , Alyssa Pagan
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