Scientists just found a planet-forming disk beyond our Milky Way for the 1st time — yes, they're thrilled

A red disk with a white center blasts out two jets of orange matter, one towards the top of the image and one towards the bottom.

Astronomers have discovered the first example of a swirling disk of material feeding a young star located in a galaxy outside the Milky Way. The disk is near-identical to those found around infant stars in the Milky Way and suggests that stars and planets form in other galaxies just as they do in our own.