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 nebulosity of the ten-foot can be resolved into stars by the twenty-foot, and so on.

From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Holden, Edward Singleton

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 Gore, J. Ellard

There was no connecting nebulosity between these objects, the tails of the two smaller not reaching each other, or the large comet.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)