disk
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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
Without that protected region, migrating moons could not survive inside Saturn's disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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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
Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
Accretion disks are among the most energetic environments in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Fazlullah even outlawed an old-fashioned children’s game called Carrom, where we flicked disks across a wooden board.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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