An astronomical research group led by University of Durham (UK) astrophysicist Anna McLeod recently published a paper detailing their discovery of an 12,000 AU long accretion disk surrounding HH 1177, a fifteen-solar mass star within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) the most massive of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. Entitled “A probable Keplerian disk feeding … Continue reading What do the rotating structure and accretion disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud tell us?