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nebula

noun as in cloud of gas

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The nebula spans an area of the sky roughly four times larger than a full Moon and seems to be chasing a glowing patch of light above it, as if in pursuit of cosmic prey.

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And perfectly in time for Halloween, they captured a spooky, red-glowing nebula that looks just like a bat signal shining across the universe!

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Another concerns the gaseous nebulas in which the planets and their stars formed.

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As a result, there was initially no explanation for the strange jet discovered in 1918 emerging from the center of this "nebula."

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As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes, they were intrigued by fuzzy patches of light called nebulae.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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