EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP â The dogs â and people â who visit the dog park on Swift Avenue will have more to enjoy, thanks to a group of third-graders and a $500 grant from the Egg Harbor Township Education Foundation. Read more
Galactic Disk-A disk of matter, about 30 kiloparsec s (kpc) in diameter and 2 kiloparsec s thick, containing most of the stars and interstellar matter in the Milky Way ... galactic disk Flattened region of gas and dust that bisects the galactic halo in a spiral galaxy. This is the region of active star formation.
Definition of disk. 1  1a : the seemingly flat figure of a celestial body the solar diskb archaic : discus. 2  2 : any of various rounded and flattened animal anatomical structures; especially : intervertebral disk â compare slipped disk. 3  3 : the central part of the flower head of a typical composite made up of closely packed tubular flowers.