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What does circumstellar mean?

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Adjective
  1. (astronomy) That surrounds, or revolves around a star
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When the orbit brings the stars close together, as this image shows, gas from the Be star's circumstellar disc flows towards the neutron star and surrounds it in a much smaller accretion disc.
Superluminal light echoes were seen as light from the outburst propagated into the surrounding, pre-existing circumstellar dust.
Learning in your sleep ReprintsAt around 3m years of age, KH 15D is a real youngster, so the presence of a circumstellar disc of debris, left over from its formation, is not surprising.
An outflow develops and the star is progressively surrounded by an expanding circumstellar shell of dust and gas.
A protoplanetary disk is a circumstellar disk of dense gas that surrounds a newly formed star.
This represents a privileged region for the search for low mass companions, circumstellar disks, or even of Active Galaxy Nuclei.

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