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    A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Solar System. The asteroid belt is the smallest and innermost known circumstellar disc in the Solar System. Classes of small Solar System bodies in other...
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    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)...
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  • nebulae, and circumstellar envelopes of young stellar objects evolve into circumstellar discs. Circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars Circumstellar envelopes...
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    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...
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    evidence suggests orbital clearing is taking place within their circumstellar discs. Gravity causes planets to be pulled into a roughly spherical shape...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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