 Here's some history of our coverage of Fomalhaut, a star 25 light-years away. In our How Far Away Is It segment, on nearby stars we covered its protoplanet, Fomalhaut B. In our 2020 review we covered how this proposed planet had faded away. An analysis of all available archival Hubble data concluded that the planet-sized object never existed in the first place. Now Webb has taken a look at this star and refers to Fomalhaut B as a previously known collisionally generated dust cloud. That would be a cloud created by a collision, much like our spacecraft collision with dimorphos created a huge dust cloud. Webb also found that the debris disk around the star is actually multiple debris disks. Planets can clear areas between disks like our asteroid belt, but as of 2023 no Fomalhaut planet has been identified. The discovery process here is common in science. Early data produces a theory that subsequent, more detailed data, proves wrong. The process continues until real knowledge is produced.