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Remember Fomalhaut? The star whose planets were directly imaged by Hubble and had a photo that looks like the Eye of Sauron? Well they found out that Fomalhaut has “micro-Asteroids” orbiting around it.
See: On The Nature of Dust Orbiting Fomalhaut