"New photo captures alien asteroid belt through James Webb Space Telescope"

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"New photo captures alien asteroid belt through James Webb Space Telescope"
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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the first asteroid belt outside our solar system, which is more complex than expected. The belt surrounds the young star Fomalhaut and consists of three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles from the star. The inner belts were revealed by the telescope for the first time. The dust belts are thought to be debris from collisions between larger bodies like asteroids and comets, and are therefore referred to as "debris disks." The discovery could reveal how planets move through these pancake-flat disks and provide details about the structure of planetary systems other than our own.

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