Webb Telescope snaps shot of first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system

The first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system is more complex than expected, astronomers found, using observations by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Looking at the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the belt in infrared light, the scientists found that the structures are more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system. 

There are three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles from the star. The scale of the outer belt is around twice that of our solar system's Kuiper Belt. 

The inner belts were revealed by the telescope for the first time.

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