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For the first time, researchers observed a stellar disk in another galaxy.

The image of the star HH1177 system is not very uncommon. Except the system's location is in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is the first time that a space telescope has taken an image of a star in another galaxy. The material disk around the star HH1177 belongs to a young star. And that shows that there is star formation in those galaxies.  The Large Magellanic Cloud is the Milky Way's companion galaxy. The existence of the young stars in that galaxy tells that the Milky Way hasn't pulled all gas and dust away from that galaxy. The material disk around the star HH1177 tells that there are also solar systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud and other dwarf galaxies. And that thing opens new visions for the galaxy's evolution.  With the combined capabilities of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, a disc around a young massive star in another galaxy has been observed. Observations from the ...