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
Lord Rosse, however, found it to be really a spiral nebula, the ring running into a series of spiral coils of nebulous matter, the outlying parts being connected with the main part by curved bands.
From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George
The most interesting specimen of a spiral nebula is situated in Canes Venatici.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
If the collision is a grazing one, they say, a spiral nebula will be formed.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
