These belts are thought to be formed by the debris from collisions of larger bodies, like asteroids, and comets.
to closely image the first asteroid belt discovered beyond our solar system, which surrounds a nearby young, hot star called Fomalhaut.
The ring structure that surrounds Fomalhaut was discovered in 1983 by NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite . Since then, astronomers have attempted to study this ring system using various ground and space-based telescopes, including Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope, and Mauna Kea observatory in Hawaii. These facilities were able to obtain sharp images of the outermost ring, but studying the complex innermost rings was difficult.
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