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
We can no more expect, then, to observe the primary processes of Creation; and to these primary processes the condition of nebulosity has already been explained to belong.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe
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 Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The ‘glow’ which surrounds them has been observed in a few instances to have vanished without leaving any trace of nebulosity behind, but the causes which have brought about such a result are entirely unknown.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
Through the battling nebulosities Yolara's face swam forth—horror-filled, distorted, inhuman!
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Mere comets or vague nebulosities in the firmament, without a form, and without a home.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
On the Tennysonian reader pur sang Browning's work was pretty sure to make the impression so frankly described by Frederick Tennyson to his brother, of "Chinese puzzles, trackless labyrinths, unapproachable nebulosities."
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
Existence, to follow out the argument, is not always painted in shadow, its horizon obscured by dark-tinted nebulosities!
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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
