A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids...

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...

Circumstellar dust is cosmic dust around a star. It can be in the form of a spherical shell or a disc, e.g. an accretion disk. Circumstellar dust can be...

nebulae, and circumstellar envelopes of young stellar objects evolve into circumstellar discs. Circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars Circumstellar envelopes...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

and Eric Becklin, American astrophysicists, detected a substantial circumstellar disc encircling the white dwarf star G 29-38. This discovery emerged from...

evidence suggests orbital clearing is taking place within their circumstellar discs. Gravity causes planets to be pulled into a roughly spherical shape...

Accretion Accretion disk Asteroid belt Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object Disrupted...

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...

the only system in which a circumplanetary disc is likely present as well as a resolved circumstellar disc." In 2020 though, the parameters of CS Cha...

region of a molecular cloud collapsed, forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc. The Sun is an ordinary main sequence star that maintains a balanced equilibrium...

presence of a spatially resolved disk surrounding the star. The star's circumstellar disc has dimensions of approximately 210 × 300 AU. The dusty ring is cool...

Accretion Accretion disk Excretion disk Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object...

called the inner Oort cloud and inner cloud) is a vast theoretical circumstellar disc, interior to the Oort cloud, whose outer border would be located at...

An accretion disk is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. The central...

migrating in waves, or the remains of the Solar System's original circumstellar disc that formed the planetary system. Earth and Venus have a near orbital...

this is that it is the result of accretion of metal-poor gas from a circumstellar disc, and a second possibility is the accretion of material from a hot...

Accretion Accretion disk Excretion disk Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object...

astronomy and astrobiology, the habitable zone (HZ), or more precisely the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), is the range of orbits around a star within which...

WTTS. Roughly half of T Tauri stars have circumstellar disks, which in this case are called protoplanetary discs because they are probably the progenitors...

nature of planet formation but also a subsequent migration through the circumstellar disc from the planet's place of origin. As of 1 April 2024, there are 5...

Accretion Accretion disk Excretion disk Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object...

effects of an external moon(s). Shepherd moon Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Accretion disk Lists of astronomical objects NASA (12 March 2019)...

Accretion Accretion disk Asteroid belt Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Debris disk Detached object Disrupted...

by gravitational collapse, which begins to spin and flatten into a circumstellar disc, out of which the planets then grow (in tandem with the star). A nebula...

planets, plus the ascending and descending nodes of the Moon. The Nebra Sky Disc is a bronze dish with symbols that are interpreted generally as the Sun or...

interferometric study concluded that Alcyone is a single star system. Circumstellar disc List of stars in Taurus Lists of stars Shell star White Tiger van...