This celestial saga began almost 20 years ago. In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. Experts designated it ...

Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. Credit: By IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg) – [1], CC BY 3.0 ...

The nearby star system Fomalhaut — of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk — has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away, is so dazzlingly bright that it blots out the faint ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever direct images of a collision around "Fomalhaut," as published in the journal Science. Fomalhaut is a star system that is just 25 light-years away from Earth.

This image of the dusty debris disk surrounding the young star Fomalhaut is from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). It reveals three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles (23 billion ...

Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away, is so dazzlingly bright that it blots out the faint light of other stars around it. Stargazers have been enraptured by its secrets for thousands of years.

Astronomers have gained a new understanding of the chaos that wreathes the bright star Fomalhaut with the help of the powerful space observatory. By Robin George Andrews Fomalhaut, a star just 25 ...