Circumstellar disc
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circumstellar-disc-166-17907819
title:
Circumstellar disc
text:
A circumstellar disc is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a star. Around the youngest stars, they are the reservoirs of material out of which planets may form. Around mature stars, they indicate that planetesimal formation has taken place, and around white dwarfs, they indicate that planetary material survived the whole of stellar evolution. Such a disc can manifest itself in various wa
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Accumulation of matter around a star
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_disc
date created:
2008-06-18T10:16:21Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T05:21:45Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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