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

When, with its giant reflecting telescope, photographs were taken of the region of Nova Persei after it had become comparatively faint, it was found that there was an extraordinarily faint nebulosity surrounding the star.

From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall

Photographs show that the brighter stars of the Pleiades are involved in nebulosity.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

Nebulæ may have any of the forms which have been described; and, in 1811, he gives examples of immense spaces in the sky covered with diffused and very faint nebulosity.

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