HH 1177

HH 1177 is a Herbig–Haro object in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is a jet from a massive young B-type star.[1] It has a mass of around 15 M☉.[1] It is the first star outside the Milky Way observed to be surrounded by an accretion disk, whose radius is ~6000 AU.[1][2] The presence of the disk is inferred from the behaviour of massive jets originating from the star, which were detected for first time in 2018. [2][3]

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Reference

  1. ^ a b c "A probable Keplerian disk feeding an optically revealed massive young star". nature.com.
  2. ^ a b "Astronomers discover disk around star in another galaxy for the 1st time ever". Astronomy.com.
  3. ^ "A parsec-scale optical jet from a massive young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud". nature.com.
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