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a lonely white star with a ring of dust and one very disputed planet.
means fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation piscis austrinus, orbited by a dusty debris ring that may or may not be hiding a planet.
from from arabic fam al-hut, mouth of the whale, naming its spot in the sky where the fish drinks.
distanceabout 25 light-years from earth
disputed planetfomalhaut b vanished from hubble images
nicknameastronomers call it the great pumpkin
ageonly 440 million years old, cosmically young