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

The characteristic of this new school is an extreme vagueness, an intentional nebulosity.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

It might then be dimly lighted by the surrounding nebulosity, or by a luminous envelope in its own atmosphere.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

His sonnet on Ben Nevis, 1818, is also an utterance of scepticism—speaking of heaven and hell as misty surmises, and of “the world of thought and mental might” as a realm of nebulosity.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael