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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images reveal a "pancake-like" disk of cosmic debris around a nearby star.

The surprisingly smooth disk hints that no exoplanets have formed around the star, Vega .

Vega is a blue-tinged star that's around twice as massive as the sun and located around 25 light-years from Earth .