Item 1 of 2 A view of an artist's impression showing the HH 1177 system, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring galaxy of our own in this handout image released by the European ...

Since I don't need to recall these items frequently, putting them on a large spinning disk just makes sense. It's more affordable and easier to get your hands on large single platter disks than ...

The disk was spotted within a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud known as LHA 120-N 180B, which had been featured in a previous ESO press release, titled "Bubbles of Brand New Stars" .

Instead, it all comes together to form and maintain a hot, rapidly spinning disk that then spirals toward the black hole. And, in the process, the disk radiates brilliantly while converting ...

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese, who argues flash cannot replace spinning disk because it’s too costly to consider for anything but limited, performance-hungry applications.

One scheme was the Nipkow disk, and [Bitluni] decided to build a working demonstration of how such a system works. Essentially, there’s a spinning disk with a spiral pattern of holes in it.

The first disk storage system, the RAMAC, was developed 50 years ago Wednesday with little fanfare in a sleepy little city. The disk storage system cost about $10,000 per megabyte.

In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have found a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring ours. It's the first time such a disc, identical to those forming ...