Posted in Astronomy at 15:00 on 14 May 2023
Taken from Astronomy Picture of the Day for 11/5/23 this is spectacular view in infra-red light of the rings around Fomalhaut, which extend over twice as far as the Kuiper Belt is from our sun. A large dust cloud in the outermost ring is shown in highlight. The gaps in the rings may be evidence for planets.

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Posted in Astronomy at 14:14 on 3 October 2017
The amazing image below (from Astronomy Picture of the Day, 3/10/17) is of a ring of ice around the star Fomalhaut which also has at least one planet. The planet has even been given a proper name, Dagon.
The image of the ring is courtesy of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and is superimposed on a hubble picture of the Fomalhaut system in blue.
This thing is 25 light years away yet we are able witness it in such detail (albeit at radio wavelengths.)

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