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A total solar eclipse means the Moon's disk will completely cover the Sun - and it is expected to last for six minutes and 23 seconds, the longest on land since 1991.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

Researchers have debated whether Jupiter's circumplanetary disk could have developed an empty inner region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

The sacrifice medal, a silver disk on a red-and-black ribbon, given for death in the line of duty, presented to Frank as if it were something important, something that made everything all right.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

Hubble's observations reveal thousands of developing stars that are still drawing in material from the surrounding disks of gas and dust that gave birth to them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

He wore a leather jerkin sewn with overlapping iron disks, and carried a dirk in one hand and an axe strapped to his back.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin