nebula
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈnɛbjʊlə/
- Specialized
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nebulosa
- Very few people have actually seen the StarCave Nebula.
- planetary nebula
- solar nebula
- dark nebula
OK, well, I think we should move on to the Southern Ring Nebula to try to explain this one to people.
- OK, well, I think we should move on to the Southern Ring Nebula to try to explain this one to people.
- We don't actually know how to describe what are dubbed these extreme bipolar nebula.
- He and colleagues made a survey of the spiral nebula.
- How close is the Orion Nebula medium?
- They even find what's called a stunted cosmical spirit in the Great Megatheria, the nebulae.
Examples
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It's a rather beautiful star forming nebula that I guess it's some hundreds of light years away.
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OK, well, I think we should move on to the Southern Ring Nebula to try to explain this one to people.
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Large though these factors may be, they still leave the gas in the nebula far less dense than air.
Academic text (1991) -
This is the Rosette Nebula, and it also is mostly glowing red.
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To the naked eye, this nebula appears as a fuzzy patch near the southeastern border of the LMC.
Academic text (2002) -
The surrounding nebula is illuminated by light escaping perpendicular to the disk.
Academic text (1994) -
Astronomers also found significant amounts of dust throughout the nebula, concentrated in the densest, coolest filaments.
Academic text (1994) -
The nebula is a stunning region of star formation visible in the night sky.
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Astronomers study the colorful patterns in the nebula to understand stellar explosions.
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The Horsehead nebula, with its distinctive shape, captivates both amateur and professional astronomers.
Synonyms
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7.7
A glowing shell of gas thrown off by a dying star and lit by the star's strong light
A bright cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars can form
A cloud of gas and dust lit by nearby stars, seen as a faint hazy patch in the sky
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.7
A glowing shell of gas thrown off by a dying star and lit by the star's strong light
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8.2
The remains of a star explosion that people first saw in 1054 in the constellation Taurus
- Archaic
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8.1
A large group of stars in a flat spiral shape with arms of young stars around an older centre
- Specialized
A cloud of gas and dust lit by nearby stars, seen as a faint hazy patch in the sky
How Bright
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nebula comes from the Latin nebula meaning 'mist' or 'cloud', so a space nebula is literally a 'cloud' of gas and dust in space, like a colorful fog you can see with a telescope.