spiral nebula

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With their heads in a spiral nebula of billions, Congressmen were treated to a floor show which brought the question of budgets down to its simplest terms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The entire underside of the dome looked like space as seen from the Hubble telescope: A dusty spiral nebula billowed up, a galaxy of stars twinkled, and meteorites whizzed across the ceiling.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

Then another astonishing change happened: in August photographs taken at the Yerkes Observatory and at Heidelberg showed that the ``nova'' was surrounded by a spiral nebula!

From Curiosities of the Sky by Serviss, Garrett Putman

However, a fairly close approach of two stars will occur in vastly greater frequency and the effect of this approach will also be to form a spiral nebula or two such nebulae.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

Whereas, next to the star itself, the spiral nebula is the type object which occurs most frequently.

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