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

I entered Florence late in the afternoon, under cover of a fog that would have done credit to London in the depths of its November nebulosity.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

A golden-yellow planetary disc, wrapt in dense nebulosity, shone out while the June twilight of these latitudes was still in its first strength.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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.