"Webb Telescope Reveals Hidden Asteroid Belts Beyond Our Solar System"

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system, revealing three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles from the star Fomalhaut. The structures are more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system, and the inner belts were revealed by the telescope for the first time. The belts are the debris from collisions of larger bodies, and by looking at the patterns in these rings, scientists can start to make a little sketch of what a planetary system ought to look like. As Webb images more systems, more will be learned about the configurations of planets that carved the belts with their gravitational forces.