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"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

Young Jupiter had a powerful magnetic field that created a magnetospheric cavity inside its circumplanetary disk.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

Astronomers had previously proposed that an undiscovered planet similar to Beta Pictoris d might be shaping the disk and producing some of those features.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 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

In all six respects, the maker of the Phaistos disk had access to much less powerful technologies to combine into a printing system than did Gutenberg.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The findings may help guide future observations of exomoons and the disks surrounding young gas giants.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

Astrolabes are metallic disks with multi-layered, interlocking components that were historically used to tell the time, map the stars, the direction of Mecca and the motion of the sky.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 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

When they did reappear, they came back as big red disks glowing a few feet in front of us.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx