By studying the remanent magnetizations in ancient meteorites, an MIT team has determined that the solar nebula — the vast of disc of gas and dust that ultimately gave rise to the solar system — lasted around 3 to 4 million years.
His upward-pointing moustache, pointy beard, shiny nose, pink cheeks and his hat - a vast abstract black disc - give him an almost insufferable vivacity.
Like him, she sang a far larger and more ambitious repertory of song than any of their predecessors, taking advantage of the long-playing record's appearance to commit to disc a vast quantity of material.
The vast majority are flattened discs, often with spiral arms; some are ellipsoids, like rugby balls; and a few are completely irregular with no symmetry.
Independent music labels were hit hard after rioters in London set fire to a 215,000-square-foot warehouse owned by the Sony Corporation on Monday night, destroying vast amounts of compact discs, vinyl albums and other stock, Reuters and the BBC reported.
Lately there has been rather more figuration, as in a brilliant disc on a vast dark square evoking the solstice, or the little wooden sticks nailed together in a skyline of peaks.
'Symphony for a Beloved Sun' fills that vast atrium with a hanging red disc of a sun, surrounded by long metal chutes up which ingot-shaped slabs of ox-blood-red wax are being carried, gravely slowly.
(New Line, available in a vast array of editions, from a single disc priced at $28.98 to a gift set priced at $59.98, PG).
If the project pans out, consumers could hold vast video libraries on a few holographic discs alongside the regular DVDs in their living room.
