Webb discovers THREE asteroid belts around a star!

The star Fomalhaut seems to have three asteroid belts, based on new James Webb Space Telescope observations. Drs. András Gáspár, George Rieke, and Schuyler Wolff tell us why!

00:00 Introduction
02:06 Interview begins
03:40 Hunting for exo-asteroids at Vega and Epsilon Eridani
04:30 What are "Thermal Locations" in a planetary system?
06:29 Why is there a debris disk?
09:02 Are the rings caused by planets?
09:41 Why weren't these rings seen by Hubble or ALMA?
10:58 What happened to the "exoplanet" Fomalhaut b?
12:26 Why don't we see planets with Webb/MIRI?
13:09 How were the images made with MIRI?
14:23 Unreleased composite images of Fomalhaut!
15:00 Will Fomalhaut be around long enough to have a solar system like ours?
15:32 Bloopers

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[patrickwalsh]

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! 😸

[woody]

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

[sankang]

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

[ariochiv]

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

[EllaShartiel]

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

[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

[TheKzelaya]

Thank you for the share!

Never gets old watching these informative videos!

[spencerthompson]

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

[machinimaaquinix]

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

[dextercampbell]

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 👏👏👏👏💜

[justexactlyperfectbrothersband]

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

[erichaynes]

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

[nirorbach]

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...

[ohasis]

It really hammers home just how vulnerable we are here.

[cavesalamander]

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

[Mr.Snow]

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

[zapfanzapfan]

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