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
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 characteristic of this new school is an extreme vagueness, an intentional nebulosity.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
This star is plainly enveloped in nebulosity, that is unquestionably connected with the larger mass of which it appears to form a satellite.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss
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
They are transparent nebulosities, of extreme lightness, without mass nor density.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby
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
In their turn, again, these rings of cosmical matter, excited by a rotary motion about the central mass, would have been broken up and decomposed into secondary nebulosities, that is to say, into planets.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
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
