The star Fomalhaut seems to have three asteroid belts, based on new James Webb Space Telescope observations. Drs. András Gáspár, George Rieke, and Schuyler Wolff tell us why!

00:00 Introduction
02:06 Interview begins
03:40 Hunting for exo-asteroids at Vega and Epsilon Eridani
04:30 What are "Thermal Locations" in a planetary system?
06:29 Why is there a debris disk?
09:02 Are the rings caused by planets?
09:41 Why weren't these rings seen by Hubble or ALMA?
10:58 What happened to the "exoplanet" Fomalhaut b?
12:26 Why don't we see planets with Webb/MIRI?
13:09 How were the images made with MIRI?
14:23 Unreleased composite images of Fomalhaut!
15:00 Will Fomalhaut be around long enough to have a solar system like ours?
15:32 Bloopers

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🧭 References:
Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Gáspár et al. (2023): https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03789

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