NASA's Webb Space Telescope Snaps Photo of First Asteroid Belt Found Beyond Our Solar System

NASA astronomers learned more than they anticipated when studying the bright, nearby star of Fomalhaut, located about 25 light years from Earth. Using the James Webb Telescope to look closer at the dust surrounding the young star, researchers realized that its dust belts are far more complex than the asteroid belts of our own solar system.The belts are formed by collisions between larger bodies. Fomalhaut has three nested belts, which expand for 14 billion miles (23 billion km) from the star. Wh...