nebulosity

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The hot central star can be seen faintly near the center of the nebulosity.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Later, the stars wander out of their nursery to seek their fortunes in the Milky Way, stellar adolescents still surrounded by tuffs of glowing nebulosity, residues still gravitationally attached of their amniotic gas.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Another objection is that there is no known nebulosity near at hand with which to connect the climatic vicissitudes of the last glacial period.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

In August, 1901, an enveloping nebula was discovered, and a month later certain wisps of this nebulosity appeared to have moved bodily, at a speed seventy-fold greater than ever previously observed in the stellar universe.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

The characteristic of this new school is an extreme vagueness, an intentional nebulosity.

From Critical Studies by Ouida