New structures discovered in the Fomalhaut star system thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope
An article published in the journal “Nature Astronomy” reports the discovery of new structures in the Fomalhaut star system. A team of researchers led by András Gáspár of the University of Arizona used the James Webb Space Telescope and found a new ring of dust and gas that adds to the two already known. The new ring is separated from the outer one by an already-known gap and from the inner one by a newly-found gap. The new gap was probably generated by gravitational perturbations that could indicate the presence of a planet or could have been produced by the formation of a dust cloud that occurred recently.
