A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids... 24 KB (2,947 words) - 02:11, 14 March 2024 |
Alpha Centauri (section Circumstellar discs) α Centauri AB, which may be interpreted as evidence for a sparse circumstellar disc or dense interplanetary dust. The total mass was estimated to be between... 112 KB (13,289 words) - 08:40, 16 March 2024 |
The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small Solar System bodies... 38 KB (4,384 words) - 13:22, 25 October 2023 |
The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU)... 118 KB (13,220 words) - 18:07, 19 March 2024 |
nebulae, and circumstellar envelopes of young stellar objects evolve into circumstellar discs. Circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars Circumstellar envelopes... 2 KB (198 words) - 07:50, 1 October 2023 |
Protoplanetary disk (redirect from Protoplanetory disc) A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disc of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star... 21 KB (2,123 words) - 14:34, 18 February 2024 |
evidence suggests orbital clearing is taking place within their circumstellar discs. Gravity causes planets to be pulled into a roughly spherical shape... 193 KB (20,308 words) - 03:54, 22 March 2024 |
by Benjamin Zuckerman and Eric Becklin found evidence of a large circumstellar disc around white dwarf star G 29-38 after a near-infrared survey of 200... 9 KB (1,003 words) - 11:54, 19 March 2024 |
beyond Jupiter are known as distant minor planets. asteroid belt The circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of Mars and... 160 KB (18,354 words) - 18:11, 11 February 2024 |