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

Photographs show that the brighter stars of the Pleiades are involved in nebulosity.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

His sonnet on Ben Nevis, 1818, is also an utterance of scepticism—speaking of heaven and hell as misty surmises, and of “the world of thought and mental might” as a realm of nebulosity.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

There are bristling comets, they are like the skins of beasts with their hair on, and are surrounded by a nebulosity.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.