nebula
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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
In the lion-shaped appearance of the nebula, this stellar remnant resembles a small button nose.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Those energetic forces heat the surrounding hydrogen gas and gradually sculpt the nebula into its striking appearance.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
To their surprise, they found an intense and previously unreported source that seemed to correspond to no prominent star, nebula or galaxy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
These maps capture Galactic HII regions, planetary nebulae, and nearby galaxies at exceptional spatial scales.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
In places where this dust lies close to hot, newly formed stars, it reflects their light instead of absorbing it, producing soft blue regions called reflection nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025
Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
Star upon star, red, blue, yellow, and white, swirling nebulae, galaxy upon galaxy: the universe, in its incandescence and darkness.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Another concerns the gaseous nebulas in which the planets and their stars formed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
That they do through Jeff Russo's opening theme, which incorporates notes from the original series' melody with dreamy images of prismatic colored nebulas, jewel-like asteroid belts, and other mesmerizing sights along the Enterprise's cruising path.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2022
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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