James Webb Space Telescope Shows Inner Structure Of First Asteroid Belt Found Beyond Our Solar System
Scientists recently used the sophisticated NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to reveal the first detailed image of asteroid belt spotted beyond our solar system. This first discovered interstellar asteroid belt region encircles a nearby young, hot star named Fomalhaut. Astronomers previously discovered Fomalhaut as the brightest star in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus. In 1983, NASA’s Infrared …