NASA's WEBB Telescope Reveals, Evidence of Massive Collision , Around Nearby Star.<br />'The Guardian' reports that astronomers have <br />discovered an enormous cloud of dust surrounding one <br />of the brightest and closest stars in the night sky. .<br />Approximately 25 light years from Earth, the star <br />known as Fomalhaut appears as part of the Piscis <br />Austrinus, or the southern fish, constellation.<br />Images previously captured by NASA's Hubble space <br />telescope and other instruments were only able to provide <br />a partial picture of Fomalhaut's cloud of cosmic material.<br />'The Guardian' reports that new images provided <br />by the James Webb space telescope have <br />revealed exciting details of the star's surroundings. .<br />What we see is the dust produced <br />in collisions between planetesimals, <br />which themselves are the long <br />forgotten remnants of the formation <br />of the planetary system itself, András Gáspár, Lead author on the study at <br />the University of Arizona, via 'The Guardian'.<br />András Gáspár, lead author on the study at the University of <br />Arizona, says the team discovered that Fomalhaut has an <br />inner asteroid belt surrounded by a second ring of rubble.<br />Surrounding these first two asteroid belts <br />is a third ring of debris that resembles <br />our own solar system's Kuiper belt. .<br />'The Guardian' reports that the team believe this <br />massive dust cloud was produced by a collision <br />between two 400-mile-wide space rocks.<br />The team believe that unseen planets are circling <br />within Fomalhaut's nested belts, determining the shape <br />of the star system with their gravitational fields. .<br />Planets as low in mass <br />as Neptune are sufficient <br />to carve the inner belts, 'Spatially resolved imaging of the inner Fomalhaut disk using JWST/MIRI' authors, via 'Nature Astronomy'
