Asteroid belt

This artist's illustration shows a collision between two bodies of ice and dust orbiting the bright star Pomelhot, 25 light-years away. This may have caused an expanding cloud of very fine dust particles. Credit: ESA, NASA and M. Kornmesser

Webb explores the asteroid belt of the young solar system Pummelhot and discovers evidence of hidden planets

The belts surround the hot young star, which can be seen with the unaided eye as the brightest star in the southern group Southern Pisces. The dust belts are debris from the collisions of larger bodies, corresponding to asteroids and comets,