disk
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In 1887 German-American inventor Emile Berliner invented the flat shellac disk, quickly saw its advantage for mass production, and patented a device to play them, the gramophone, that same year.
The glow comes from a dusty disk that the star expelled only a few hundred years ago.
From Science Daily
In this scenario, a solid core slowly builds up inside a disk of dust and ice, gathering rocky and icy material until it becomes massive enough to pull in surrounding gas.
From Science Daily
Researchers say this behavior matches predictions from the dark matter halo in their model when combined with the known mass of the Milky Way's disk and central bulge.
From Science Daily
Larger than a silver dollar but smaller than a hockey puck, the disk is an American Legion Medal, awarded to me on finishing the eighth grade in 1967.
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