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circumstellar

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cir·cum·stel·lar  (sûrkm-stlr)
adj.
Revolving around or surrounding a star.


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The findings support the notion that at least some massive stars form as their smaller siblings do, by packing on infalling material from a circumstellar disk.
What we're seeing is circumstellar gas and dust swept up and heated by the blast wave," says Blair.
If the timescale is very short compared with the lifetime of the typical circumstellar [cloud], then maybe every system can form planetesimals," she says.
 
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