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China paid tribute to Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state who helped open the Asian nation

Nigeria will spend at least six times more on servicing its debt next year than on building new

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Scientists have found the first ever disc structure around a star outside of our own Milky Way. The disc is around a young massive star forming in a stellar nursery called N180. It is within the Larg Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that neighbours ours. The disc is 163,000 light years from Earth – meaning that it is not only the first to be detected outside of our galaxy, but also the most distant such disc ever seen. Matter cannot fall straight into a star. Instead, it flattens out, making a disc that spins around the star. Closer to the star, the disc rotates faster. Scientists caught that difference in speed using telescopes, confirming that it is a disc around a distant star. Scientists have seen such discs before, but only in our own galaxy. Being able to see them outside of the Milky Way is a remarkable feat of technology, scientists said. Lead author of the study, Dr Anna McLeod from Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham University said: “When I first saw evidence for a rotating structure in the ALMA data, I could not believe that we had detected the first extragalactic accretion disc; it was a special moment. “We know discs are vital to forming stars and planets in our galaxy, and here, for the first time, we’re seeing direct evidence for this in another galaxy. “We are in an era of rapid technological advancement when it comes to astronomical facilities. “Being able to study how stars form at such incredible distances and in a different galaxy is very exciting.” The findings are reported in a new article, ‘A likely Keplerian disk feeding an optically revealed massive young star’, published in Nature. Read More Astronomers find unprecedented ‘disc’ around distant planet Scientists find planets moving around in strange ‘rhythm’ Astronomers discover new six-planet system

Opening up about her writing process, Olivia Rodrigo has said she takes inspiration from “weird” and “embarrassing” moments in her life.

Chinese state-backed developer Sino-Ocean Group is in talks with bad-debt manager China Cinda Asset Management over financial support,

One of China’s largest investment banks has warned its analysts against making any bearish calls and to avoid

By Brigid Riley and Junko Fujita TOKYO NISA, or the Nippon Individual Savings Account, is a Japanese government

The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission will block crypto trading platform Binance from being accessed in the country,

Hamas said there was still no deal to extend a truce with Israel, only around an hour before

China’s most famous entrepreneur broke years of silence about Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. with a call to arms