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
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of NGC 2392, a planetary nebula commonly known as the Lion Nebula, revealing the cosmic object in striking infrared detail.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Together, these layers create an image dominated by red, white, and blue, with the X-ray data highlighting the sparkling glow of young stars forming within the nebula.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 4, 2026
A Level Three Awkward Silence began to coalesce around us, like interstellar hydrogen pulled together by gravity to form a new nebula.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
These maps capture Galactic HII regions, planetary nebulae, and nearby galaxies at exceptional spatial scales.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
These glowing structures form two long, narrow nebulae driven by intense activity around a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025
He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
When we look around us in our little corner of the Milky Way, we see many stars surrounded by spherical shells of glowing gas, the planetary nebulae.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
As one of the closest planetary nebulas to Earth, it offers astronomers a rare opportunity to closely examine the final stages of a star's life.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026
Those images included distant galaxies and nebulas, as well as later unprecedentedly detailed images of familiar and comparatively closer objects like the planet Jupiter.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
Gorgeous photographs of swirling galaxies, fiery nebulas and newborn stars stunned the world.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022
In July, the Webb, the largest-ever space telescope, enthralled both scientists and the public with spectacular glimpses of never-before-seen nebulas, exoplanets, ancient galaxies, and fluffy translucent clouds of space dust swirling around shimmering stars.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 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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