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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 ev
by ftxbro 3y ago
> "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. But to their surprise, the dusty structures are much more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system. Overall, there are three nested belts..."
I almost feel like they were hoping to find planets but didn't see any. But of course this is science press release writing. So instead of "Webb Looks in Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt for Planets But Didn't Find Any" they put a more positive spin "Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More" as is tradition.