disk
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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
Its relative youth and proximity give astronomers an unusual opportunity to observe how newly formed planets interact with the surrounding disk of dust and debris left over from the system's formation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The presence of Beta Pictoris d could also help astronomers understand the unusual appearance of the system's debris disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
He plastered the adhesive disk against his cheek, arranged the beam of light until it fed directly into his eye.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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
Planetary systems develop from massive disks of gas and dust surrounding young stars.
From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026
Galaxies do not build stars evenly across their disks.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
The disks sit in a jumble of gleaming metal equipment; Ms. Fox, in a pale-blue hazmat suit and surgical mask, peers in at them through a window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
Each one had eyes fashioned of round or oblong disks of abalone shell, but the rest of their faces were blank.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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