disk

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In his model, some of the exploded material falls back toward the magnetar and forms a tilted accretion disk.

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The galaxy itself has a fairly typical disk shape.

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For the second time that day I felt Regan’s shoulder pressed against mine as we stepped up onto the thick metal disk.

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Their forms match the aerodynamic shapes typical of tektites, including spheres, ellipsoids, droplets, disks, dumbbells, and twisted shapes.

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Such conditions are common in protoplanetary disks, the rotating clouds of gas and dust that surround young stars and eventually give rise to planets.

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