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As gravity pulls those enriched clouds together, they can form rotating disks around young stars, similar to the disk of material that eventually produced our own Solar System.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

A total solar eclipse means the Moon's disk will completely cover the Sun - and it is expected to last for six minutes and 23 seconds, the longest on land since 1991.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Together, Saturn's rapid rotation and this abundance of ionized material mean that the pressure from the planet's magnetic field and its rapidly rotating disk of charged material must balance the pressure of the solar wind.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

"It's quite significant. It's not the greatest prize, a total eclipse, but it is a partial eclipse of almost nine-tenths of the sun's disk," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Here,” Kaz said, tossing him a tiny, clear disk that winked in the sun.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Ordinary stars often display silicate emission associated with dusty disks.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Hubble's observations reveal thousands of developing stars that are still drawing in material from the surrounding disks of gas and dust that gave birth to them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Galaxies do not build stars evenly across their disks.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

At dusk through her tears she saw the swift and luminous disks that crossed the sky like an exhalation and she thought that it was a signal of death.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez