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
Such, then, is the mechanism of the first phase in the history of a spiral nebula according to the Planetesimal Hypothesis.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Serviss, Garrett Putman
The authors go further back and endeavor to account for the origin of the spiral nebula, but this phase of the subject is not vital to their hypothesis.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
In the centre of a spiral nebula is seen a mass both more luminous and more resolvable than the rest.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
