nebulous
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- adjective
- /ˈnɛbjələs/
- Specialized
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nebuloso
- Nebulous stars were considered mere curiosities and not something to be studied systematically.
- nebulous objects
- nebulous regions
Examples
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Infrared telescopes are additionally able to penetrate thick, nebulous clouds of gas and dust, permitting views of obscured objects like young stars and forming galaxies.
Academic text (2007) -
The nebulous swirl seems to be disappearing constantly into the unrelieved blackness of the center.
Fiction book (1996) -
The lowest of the two is either a nebulous star or perhaps a comet.
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Three distinct dusty, nebulous regions are visible at the center of the image.
Academic text (1992) -
The nebulous world of clouds comes within students' grasp through the software modeling in "Clouds."
Academic text (2003) -
Besides their beauty, these plates indicate the state of knowledge of nebulous objects in the mid-19th century.
Academic text (2005) -
And then you get to the nebulous rocks that are dwarf planets and planets that are just bigger than that.
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The protostar illuminates three distinct dusty, nebulous regions within its placental molecular cloud.
Academic text (1992) -
The Milky Way appears as a nebulous band of light stretching across the night sky.
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Through the telescope, the nebulous shape of the galaxy became clearer and more defined.
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Etymology
The word nebulous comes from the old Latin word nebula, which means 'mist' or 'cloud'. So in astronomy a nebulous object is like a soft, cloudy shape in space.