Two Planetesimals Colliding

Webb explores the Fomalhauts asteroid belt and discovers proof of hidden planets

This artist’s illustration depicts a collision between two icy, dusty our bodies orbiting the intense star Fomalhaut, positioned 25 light-years away. This will likely have precipitated an increasing cloud of very tremendous mud particles. Astronomers utilizing NASA’s James Webb House Telescope have now found three nested particles belts surrounding the younger star. These bands, which…

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