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This page, made in 2008, reflects the current science conceptions at the time: the accretion disk around a star or a planet would «spiral in» toward the center. In fact, it does not, just as Saturn's ring does not. For such a large ring as on this image, the only instability is to condense in moons. Accretion disk do fall on their central body when material is still coming on them from random directions, cancelling their orbital speed and falling on the central body. Yet it is rare, and few stars do that, they are called FUORs from the first found: FU Orionis. Still I left this Dantesque scene of a planet becoming red hot under the constant heavy bombing of the infall of its accretion disk.
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