circumstellar disc

English

Noun

circumstellar disc (plural circumstellar discs)

  1. (astronomy) 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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