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
Nebulæ may have any of the forms which have been described; and, in 1811, he gives examples of immense spaces in the sky covered with diffused and very faint nebulosity.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward Singleton Holden
For if there is an intimate relation between the stars and the nebulosity, it would follow that where there is no nebulosity in this particular region there would be no stars.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
Speculated concerning the Milky Way, the nebulosity of stars, the origin and growth of solar systems.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
But, as to substance, he contains too many nebulosities and abstractions for my taste; a veritable mist of them, out of which emerges—what?
From Alone by Norman Douglas
Also in the constellation Cygnus, Barnard has discovered very extensive nebulosities of a delicate filmy cloudlike nature which are wholly invisible with telescopes, but very obvious on highly sensitive plates with long exposures.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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
These have no tails, and are probably mere nebulosities, without solid nuclei.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The top arc of its prostrate base reached a thousand feet or more up the precipitous wall; above it all was hidden in sparkling nebulosities that were like still clouds of greenly glimmering fire-flies.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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