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Spatially resolved imaging of the inner Fomalhaut disk using #JWST
The architecture of the Fomalhaut debris disk system.
👉 nature.com/articles/s4155…
The architecture of the Fomalhaut debris disk system.
👉 nature.com/articles/s4155…
The new images of the Fomalhaut debris disk show a newly discovered asteroid belt & evidence of a complex planetary system. The lower insets enlarge the Great Dust Cloud, ... 2/
Image 👇 Six views of Fomalhaut using various Earth
& space telescopes.
Image 👇 Six views of Fomalhaut using various Earth
& space telescopes.
... while the upper inset indicates the projected location of the planet Fomalhaut b at the time of the observations. The inner ring in analogous to our asteroid belt, while the outer ring is comparable to the Sun's Kuiper Belt. But Fomalhaut also has an intermediate ... 3/
... debris highway between the two, most likely a mix of icy and rocky ephemera.
The gap between Fomalhaut's inner and intermediate rings may have been carved out by a planet. But no direct evidence of any worlds could be seen. 4/
The gap between Fomalhaut's inner and intermediate rings may have been carved out by a planet. But no direct evidence of any worlds could be seen. 4/
By this point in Fomalhaut's life cycle, most planets would have cooled off, and only one many times the size of Jupiter would still be hot enough to be detected by Webb's infrared instrument. You could hide Jupiter in there, all over the place, and nobody would know. 5/
Fomalhaut dwells in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus. The star is 440 million years old. But Fomalhaut is a type of star that lives no more than a billion years. That means that, it is halfway through its expected stellar life. 6/6
👉 jpl.nasa.gov/news/webb-look…
👉 jpl.nasa.gov/news/webb-look…
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