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disk

[disk] / dɪsk /


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The result suggests that magnetism may have played a meaningful role in controlling how material moved through the protoplanetary disk as the sun was forming.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

If a magnetic field was present, Weiss and his colleagues reasoned, it should have left a lasting imprint on some of the material forming within the disk.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We think these kinds of magnetic fields were helping to move gas from the protoplanetary disk, in toward this central star, the sun," Borlina says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

As those particles circulated through the developing disk, they could have created and maintained a magnetic field.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Annabeth handed him the letter and the disk of bronze.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Using that technique, astronomers looked for planets hidden inside the dusty disks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

One memorandum from the FBI's legal attache in London, sent two weeks later, noted there were a "number of videos, floppy disks and documentation still to be viewed".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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

That discovery helps scientists better understand how stars continue building their final mass and how the disks surrounding them gradually evolve before eventually disappearing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

The rod had two disks attached to it, one white and one red, which were 1 meter apart.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple




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