He was among the first to show that young stars with ages of only 1 million years accrete material from surrounding disks of gas and dust. (cfa.harvard.edu)
Most of the galaxy's stars, including the sun, reside in a thin, pancake - shaped disk, but ancient stars populate a halo surrounding the disk. (sciencemag.org)
The plot, which ambles pleasantly through Washington, DC and its Virginia and Maryland suburbs, consists of a series of neatly interlocking missteps and misunderstandings surrounding a disk that contains the spy memoirs of one Osborne Cox (Malkovich). (theatlantic.com)