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

There are bristling comets, they are like the skins of beasts with their hair on, and are surrounded by a nebulosity.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

Speculated concerning the Milky Way, the nebulosity of stars, the origin and growth of solar systems.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

The convolutions of its spiral are filled with numerous starlike condensations, themselves engulfed in nebulosity.

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