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Fomalhaut
May 16 , 2023
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- Fomalhaut is one of the top 20 brightest stars in the night sky and is located just 25 light-years away.
- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the image of warm dust around a nearby the star.
- The dusty structures are much more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system.
- Overall, there are three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles (23 billion kilometers) from the star.
- This is equal to150 times the distance of Earth from the Sun.
- Fomalhaut's dust ring was discovered in 1983 in observations made by NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS).
- Fomalhaut is the 18th brightest star in the night sky and has 1.9 times the Sun’s mass.
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