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HD 37974 (or R 126) is one of two stars that was identified by NASA’s Spitzer space telescope in the Milky Way’s nearest neighbor galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (the other being R 66 or HDE 268835). Both stars are circled by monstrous dust disks located in the area that is theorised to be the origin of planets.

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