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Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar imaging technology enabled us to see nascent stars hundreds of light years away. Since then, circumstellar disks have become an area of intense study among astrophysicists, largely because they are thought to be the forerunners of planetary systems like our own-the possible birthplaces of planets. This volume brings

Disks (Astrophysics) --- Stars --- Birth, Stellar --- Formation, Star --- Formation, Stellar --- Stellar birth --- Stellar formation --- Astrophysical discs --- Astrophysical disks --- Discs (Astrophysics) --- Disk systems (Astrophysics) --- Astrophysics --- Formation. --- Evolution --- Disques (Astrophysique) --- Etoiles --- Formation --- new stars, dust, circumstellar disks, space, astronomy, solar system, universe, birth of a star, astrophysics, technology, interstellar, planetary systems, planets, stellar evolution, radiation, magnetohydrodynamics, hydrodynamics, gases, chemical processes, chemistry, physics, science, nonfiction, formation, protoplanetary structure, magnetic fields, dispersal, mineralogy, accretion.