How Circumstellar Disks Form and Evolve
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Three stages of star and planet formation are depicted in panels 1, 2, 3. For each stage, the circumstellar disk is shown edge-on ("A" panels), with the disk eclipsing the star, and at a tilt halfway between edge-on and face-on ("B" panels). For the "B" illustrations, the brightness of the young star has been de-emphasized to show details in the evolving planetary system.
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About the Image
NASA press release
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| Id: | opo9905n |
| Type: | Chart |
| Release date: | 9 February 1999, 19:00 |
| Size: | 516 x 800 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Circumstellar Disks |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk |
