![]() ![]() It’s a fairly complex star and only grows in complexity with the discovery of not one, but two more layers of dust rings. It’s about 440 million years old - which is about halfway through its lifespan, reported The New York Times. Through previous imaging, scientists knew that an outer ring surrounded the hot star, but for the first time, the JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument showed three levels of dust that span more than 14 billion miles away from the star - which is “150 times the distance of Earth from the sun,” per NASA.īoth NASA and the European Space Agency contributed to the finding of the rings and the image captured.įomalhaut is a star located in the Piscis Austrinus constellation with its own asteroid belt. The James Webb Space Telescope has made another new discovery, this time in the layered dust rings surrounding a star outside of our galaxy. ![]()
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