Discovery of rotating disc surrounding star in another galaxy a 'special moment'
Findings could help astronomers understand more about how stars are born.
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Findings could help astronomers understand more about how stars are born.
Star system HH 1177 lives in a stellar nursery about 200,000 light-years away from Earth.
Astronomers peering into the nearby galaxy have spotted something that has never seen outside our own Milky Way – a disc around a young star.
A new generation of powerful telescopes have allowed humans to see even further away in the universe in even greater detail, revealing just how different other parts of the universe can be from nearby space - and how similar, too.
Disk galaxies like the Milky Way are rare in the Supergalactic Plane. Most of our neighbours are ellipticals. Why?