2023-05-15 13:56:51
FomalhautIn NewsNASA’s
James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a complex and fascinating dusty structure around the young star Fomalhaut.
About Fomalhaut is located
25 light-years from Earth.
It was one of the
first exoplanets ever discovered in visible light by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2004.
Exoplanets are the planets that orbit around stars other than the Sun.
It is used in navigation because of its conspicuous place in a sky region otherwise
lacking in bright stars. It is a white star, it has an apparent
magnitude of 1.16. It lies in the southern constellation
Piscis Austrinus, 25 light-years from Earth.
It is the brightest star in the southern constellation
Piscis Austrinus. It is surrounded by debris disks that are remnants of collisions between
larger bodies, similar to asteroids and comets.
Astronomers proposed that Fomalhaut b was not a real planet but rather an expanding dust cloud left behind by a
collision between two cometlike bodies.
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