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

Mr. A. E. Fath thinks that “no spiral nebula investigated has a truly continuous spectrum.”

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

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

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