circumstellar discs

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

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of circumstellar disc
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