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
The nebulosity of the ten-foot can be resolved into stars by the twenty-foot, and so on.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward Singleton Holden
A close examination of these photographs has given the present writer the impression that the dark lanes and spots are in the nebulosity, and that the nebulosity is mixed up with the stars.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
When, with its giant reflecting telescope, photographs were taken of the region of Nova Persei after it had become comparatively faint, it was found that there was an extraordinarily faint nebulosity surrounding the star.
From Astronomical Discovery by Herbert Hall Turner
Through the battling nebulosities Yolara's face swam forth—horror-filled, distorted, inhuman!
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Mere comets or vague nebulosities in the firmament, without a form, and without a home.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
As for his manners, I can only say I have heard views with which I was in full personal agreement made more offensive by a dogmatic advocate than were these monstrous but quite amiable nebulosities.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
No one, who has not been stultified by theological nebulosities, ought to fail to know, as we knew when we first began to go to school, that a blind man cannot see anything at all.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 by Various
Existence, to follow out the argument, is not always painted in shadow, its horizon obscured by dark-tinted nebulosities!
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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