English Explanatory Dictionary

circumstellar disc

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a star.

Word forms

circumstellar disc circumstellar discs
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