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...

or circumplanetary disks. But they can also be galactic rings and circumstellar discs, belts of planetoids, such as the asteroid belt or Kuiper belt, or...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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)...

direct imaging, HR 2562 B orbits within the inner edge of HR 2562's circumstellar disc—as of April 2023, it is one of only two known brown dwarfs to do so...

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

astrophysicists Benjamin Zuckerman and Eric Becklin detected a substantial circumstellar disc encircling the white dwarf star G 29-38, stemming from a near-infrared...

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

region of a molecular cloud collapsed, forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc. The Sun is a typical star that maintains a balanced equilibrium by the fusion...

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

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...

trans-Neptunian objects 150 to 250 AU Hills cloud a large hypothetical circumstellar disc Solar System planets and dwarf planets listed for distances comparison...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

critical mass, starts rapidly accreting the surrounding gas of the circumstellar disc. This mechanism cannot explain b Cen (AB)b, because core accretion...

nature of planet formation but also a subsequent migration through the circumstellar disc from the planet's place of origin. As of 24 July 2024, there are 7...

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...