nebula
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Over the next several million years, this "solar nebula" changed dramatically.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Their magnetic signatures indicate that a substantial magnetic field was already present during the solar nebula stage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The dark nebula is made from interstellar dust dense enough to block starlight and is 650 light years away.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Wallace said he had always been a keen photographer and had been on a learning curve with the tech involved in capturing outer space, including galaxies and nebula.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
These maps capture Galactic HII regions, planetary nebulae, and nearby galaxies at exceptional spatial scales.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
These sources include pulsars, planetary nebulae, compact HII regions -- which are dense, ionized gas clouds in space -- as well as distant galaxies that lie far beyond the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025
He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
We are in the realm of the nebulae, eight billion light-years from Earth, halfway to the edge of the known universe.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
As one of the closest planetary nebulas to Earth, it offers astronomers a rare opportunity to closely examine the final stages of a star's life.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026
Those images included distant galaxies and nebulas, as well as later unprecedentedly detailed images of familiar and comparatively closer objects like the planet Jupiter.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
Gorgeous photographs of swirling galaxies, fiery nebulas and newborn stars stunned the world.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022
Nowadays, of course, they are available instantaneously, on demand and, essentially, for free via the internet — along with photographs of nebulas and stars from even deeper in space.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
I was rocketing through space, flying past exploding nebulas.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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