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Planet-forming disc around star seen beyond our galaxy for first time

DIGEST SPACE

ASTRONOMERS PEERING into the nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud have spotted something that has never been seen outside our own Milky Way: a disc of gas and dust around a young star.

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