Sentences with phrase «nebular disk»

These theories include: the nebular hypothesis by Emanuel Swedenborg (1734) and later refined by Immanuel Kant (1755) and Pierre - Simon Marquis de Laplace (1796), the planetesimal theory by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin and Forest Noulton (1901), the tidal theory by James H. Jeans (1917), the accretion theory by Otto Schmidt (1944), the protoplanet theory by William Hunter McCrea (1960), the capture theory by Michael Woolfson (1964), and the solar nebular disk theory by Viktor Safronov (1972).

Promising mechanisms invoke tapping the rotational energy stored in either the newly formed star or the inner parts of its nebular disk.

The infall shock, at the surfaces of the protostar and the swirling nebular disk surrounding it, arrests the inflow, creating an intense radiation field that tries to work its way out of the infalling envelope of gas and dust.

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The percentages denote the amount of nebular light passing through the disk.