Webb discovers THREE asteroid belts around a star!

[@woody5109]

We are so fortunate to be living in theses times, so many new technological discoveries. Think what’s yet to come, amazing.

[@sankang9425]

Crazy that 30 years ago we didn't know that the Kuiper belt was even real but now we can detect alien Kuiper belts.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

That’s a pretty cool thing!

[@AfricanLionBat]

​@@LaunchPadAstronomyit's cool you have all these friends that are actually working on this stuff

[@patrickwalsh2361]

I love when you have these interesting guests on your show breaking down all of the new information from JWST as well as other telescopes ! It’s the perfect way to start your day. 👍🏻🔭

[@michaelmarhal]

yooo, good editing!! awesome video! it was not boring and easy to follow/understand! 😸

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thank you! I've found that editing interviews to be a lot tricker than I thought they would be. Figuring out what to show to support what they're saying is a dark art :)

[@ariochiv]

I'm really excited for the Vega and E Eri observations.

[@malachiXX]

I find it facinating that one of the key features in a novel published in 1981 (The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh) was a solar system exactly like this. She likened it to a 'fried egg' and spent a great deal of time describing what travel through this system would be like

[@EllaShartiel]

This is exactly the video that I wanted to watch!!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Great! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[@TheKzelaya1]

Thank you for the share! Never gets old watching these informative videos!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thanks!

[@spencerthompson1049]

So cool to hear from the authors of the paper thank you!

[@MarkusSchaub]

Another fantastic video!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thanks man!

[@justexactlyperfectbrothersband]

looks like sunshine daydream...... Thanks Christian, every one of your videos is fascinating and informative, keep 'em coming for as long as you can man!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

As long as I can keep the days between videos as short as possible.

[@dextercampbell796]

You just got yourself a new subscriber! Just saw your Beetlejuice video and wow was I impressed with how you explained and documented and put that video together anything space science especially to do with this stuff I'm all over it thank you for making these videos I cannot wait watch the rest of them seriously Round of Applause for you 👏👏👏👏💜

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Wow thank you, and I'm glad to have you along for the ride!

[@dextercampbell796]

@@LaunchPadAstronomy you are very welcome. like seriously the way you approach things so calmly and go about presenting these videos is really refreshing, wherever you might be Greece from Southern California!(:

[@domenicm1555]

Thank you for making these videos!

[@machinimaaquinix3178]

Oh how fantastic to see this video. I took Dr. Riecke's Astronomy 101 at the UofA.... a bit ago lol.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Cool! I would have liked to have been his student, he seems like a great guy!

[@nirorbach8046]

Thanks a lot for this interesting interview! I personally wouldn't expect all the stellar systems to have the same composition of planets and belts, with the same distances as our own. Not all families have the same children ages...

[@hanisultan179]

thanks for the video

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

My pleasure!

[@ohasis8331]

It really hammers home just how vulnerable we are here.

[@redketchup356]

Thank you Christian. Thats awesome

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Appreciate it!

[@cavesalamander6308]

What is a temperature of disks' material? What about theirs density and chemical composition? Does distribution of temperature correspond with any good model? Good point: we see objects with size >= wave length. It's pretty obvious, but it's worth remembering.

[@macdtravis]

Visually it looks like there are peaks and troughs in the dust. So the light emitting from the sun is being block, similar to a shadow being casted by a whirlpool in a water body.

[@YeenMage]

Fomalhaut is Arabic for "Mouth of the Fish" and is the mouth part of the constellation of the Southern Fish (Piscis Austrinus) Since there are fishes with several layers of teeth/fangs, I wonder if these asteroid belts coincidentally represent the layer of fangs of the fish constellation

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

That's a pretty cool thought!

[@dogcarman]

Oooh! The fish is actually a shark then. Nice.

[@EvaFuji]

well ancient astronomers didn't know about the asteroid belts so no but from a modern perspective its a call observation even though its not the only star with asteroid belts

[@cykkm]

Literally فم الحوت, “mouth of the whale.” حوت generally meant “whale;” in the modern literary language the baleen whale, specifically. Ancient Arabic-speaking peoples weren't very much into fishing, considering the geography, and there had been relatively few words for different kinds of sea creatures. And no, of course they didn't see the ring.

[@VikingTeddy]

"Rings of Fomalhaut" sounds like a great name for a scifi epic. I really want to read it now.

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

It's very impressive.

[@Mr.Snow12]

Hey there, could you do a video of the early galaxies that were discovered, that are too close to the "big bang" and what your thoughts are? Maybe you could even talk with someone about it. That would be an interesting video to watch

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@usptact]

Is there a chance the intermediate ring is just an optical artifact?

[@erichaynes7502]

0:19 SOFIA has both entered and left the chat.

[@zapfanzapfan]

So, Sauron´s eye has a ring under it, he must be tired 🙂

[@100vg]

If Fomalhaut is a star, then why is its shape so odd? Rocky looking with what I'll call Tabs on top and bottom with the top one much taller? Don't stars usually appear to be a globe?

[@ariochiv]

What I'm curious about (both from this and earlier observations) is why the star appears to be well off-center from the disks.

[@Markle2k]

I don't know if I'm actually recording you. You may come to regret this

[@kapikoyli]

🎉🎉🎉

[@bee7244]

Images that NASA didnt released? I wonder how many more that they didnt release? An the purpose behind those actions

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

All of the images are freely available to the public on the MAST archive. However, processing those images for public release requires a fair amount of time and effort. Fortunately, the science team did their own image processing on the data which we discussed in the video.

[@Tom-vx5eq]

NASA is obligated to release to the public. Everything they do is public. However, do you know how to process imagery in wavelengths other than visual? Probably not. Those who do aren't going to make every single piece of data that comes through into something you can understand. Learn about wavelengths and GIS before you say they aren't releasing photos. They aren't even photos. Just pieces of information the general public can't even comprehend.

[@Tom-vx5eq]

To clarify. Every piece of data that comes from a NASA satellite is available. You just need to be smart to translate it, and they don't translate their garbage data.

[@stephenallen4374]

So 😎 if that doesn't get people into astronomy nothing well

[@drvansomeren]

These rings are planets in formation. There's probably more.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

Thumb down for spelling Fomalhaut wrong in the thumbnail. Names matter, more than most other words. And it's trivial to check this online.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Awesome, great catch. Thanks!

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@LaunchPadAstronomy Wow, that's unusually gracious. Enough so that I flipped it to a like. I don't know when I've ever done that.

[@AttilaTheHun333333]

@@ronaldgarrison8478 The man has class. According to your comment, something you don’t have or understand.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@AttilaTheHun333333 I see you don't like my attitude, but I don't see you telling me I'm wrong. Take a moment to notice, and you may see that the owner of the channel handled this much better than you have.

[@DuckDodgers69]

🖖👽

[@SaraMaziane-zo1yt]

سبحان الله و بحمده سبحان الله العظيم

[@TeethToothman]

🍞🦖🍞

[@jamesjoseph5707]

Alot of us want Webb to be looking for Life. Not Rocks. Lets Go !

[@Tom-vx5eq]

Sorry Scott Manley...

[@PreppenWolfLLC]

Cool images. Far too much blatant conjecture about how the rings form stated basically as fact. There's clearly a lot we haven't seen and don't understand about stars and solar system formations. No one is just willing to say "we don't know". More scientists need to stick with science and make it clear when they are saying things that are guesses and not facts.