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 peculiar veiled or tinted appearance has been remarked in some cases visually, and examination of the photographs strongly confirms the existence of absorbing nebulosity.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

When, with its giant reflecting telescope, photographs were taken of the region of Nova Persei after it had become comparatively faint, it was found that there was an extraordinarily faint nebulosity surrounding the star.

From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall