(astronomy) A flattened cloud of gas or small particles that undergoes approximately circular motion about a star, and in which the material velocity is determined primarily by the balance of gravity and centrifugal force.
| Sci-Tech Dictionary: circumstellar disk |
(astronomy) A flattened cloud of gas or small particles that undergoes approximately circular motion about a star, and in which the material velocity is determined primarily by the balance of gravity and centrifugal force.
| classical T Tauri star (astronomy) | |
| weak-line T Tauri star (astronomy) | |
| Eclipsing variable stars (stars, the galaxy) |
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