nebula
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Wallace said he had always been a keen photographer and had been on a learning curve with the tech involved in capturing outer space, including galaxies and nebula.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"To our surprise, it turns out you can, if you have an extremely dense screen of hydrogen, so dense that it looks more like the surface of an enormous star than a wispy interstellar nebula."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The gas and dust now forming the nebula have been evolving for several thousand years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
In the lion-shaped appearance of the nebula, this stellar remnant resembles a small button nose.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Every planetary nebula is a token of a star in extremis.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
They also give researchers a new way to examine well-known objects such as the Rosette and Orion nebulae using detailed spectroscopic information spread across large areas of the sky.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
These maps capture Galactic HII regions, planetary nebulae, and nearby galaxies at exceptional spatial scales.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025
Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
Without them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Another concerns the gaseous nebulas in which the planets and their stars formed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
Those images included distant galaxies and nebulas, as well as later unprecedentedly detailed images of familiar and comparatively closer objects like the planet Jupiter.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
Gorgeous photographs of swirling galaxies, fiery nebulas and newborn stars stunned the world.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022
In July, the Webb, the largest-ever space telescope, enthralled both scientists and the public with spectacular glimpses of never-before-seen nebulas, exoplanets, ancient galaxies, and fluffy translucent clouds of space dust swirling around shimmering stars.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
I was rocketing through space, flying past exploding nebulas.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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