Reevaluating a Star's Asteroid Belt: Surprising Discoveries Uncovered.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the star Fomalhaut, which is home to one of the first asteroid belts discovered outside the Solar System, is actually orbited by a nested series of three concentric belts, extending out to a distance of 150 astronomical units. These debris fields around the young star could help astronomers piece together the processes involved in planetary formation and the dynamics of a young planetary system, leading to a better understanding of how our own Solar System came into being.