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nebula

[neb-yuh-luh] / ˈnɛb jə lə /
NOUN
cloud of gas
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Over the next several million years, this "solar nebula" changed dramatically.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

The dark nebula is made from interstellar dust dense enough to block starlight and is 650 light years away.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Wallace said he had always been a keen photographer and had been on a learning curve with the tech involved in capturing outer space, including galaxies and nebula.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The next image highlights NGC 3603, a nebula in the Milky Way that contains an enormous cluster of young stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 4, 2026

Every planetary nebula is a token of a star in extremis.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

These glowing regions are known as emission nebulae.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025

In places where this dust lies close to hot, newly formed stars, it reflects their light instead of absorbing it, producing soft blue regions called reflection nebulae.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025

That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.

From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025

He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025

When the Sun passes through a spiral arm it is more likely than it is at present to enter into gaseous nebulae and interstellar dust clouds and to encounter objects of substellar mass.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

First observed in the early 1800s, the Helix Nebula has become one of the most recognizable planetary nebulas in the sky thanks to its bold, ring-like appearance.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026

That they do through Jeff Russo's opening theme, which incorporates notes from the original series' melody with dreamy images of prismatic colored nebulas, jewel-like asteroid belts, and other mesmerizing sights along the Enterprise's cruising path.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2022

Gorgeous photographs of swirling galaxies, fiery nebulas and newborn stars stunned the world.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022

Nowadays, of course, they are available instantaneously, on demand and, essentially, for free via the internet — along with photographs of nebulas and stars from even deeper in space.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

As a result, the histories of dinosaurs, nebulas, and glaciers are generally acknowledged to belong to fields of science rather than to the humanities.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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