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But the fact that it appeared relatively flat suggested to 18th-century astronomers that the Milky Way was actually a disklike assemblage of stars that was more like a pancake than a sphere.

Galaxy surveys will help astronomers understand the early history of these agglomerations: When they started to form stars and how quickly they organized into the disklike spirals such as the Milky Way.

The robot’s disklike body does not resemble that of a gall midge larva, but it jumps like one.

Researchers have used tissue engineering to grow healthy disklike structures in the lab, but few studies have actually tested how these replacement disks perform over time when they’re implanted in living organisms.

Laplace was one of the first to study how a rotating clump of objects can collapse into a disklike shape.