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disk

[disk] / dɪsk /


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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

It is still orbiting within its young star's dusty disk, giving scientists a rare opportunity to study planet formation while it is still happening.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Each star is surrounded by a debris disk filled with dust, gas, and pieces of ice and rock.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Under some conditions, the collision destroys Theia and creates a broad protolunar disk around Earth.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

When Cicero writes of the orbis he sometimes means the habitable dry land, a disk rising above the waves, and sometimes the whole globe of land and ocean.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

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

“No, sir, we ran out of disks just before the troll went in.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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