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
In the lion-shaped appearance of the nebula, this stellar remnant resembles a small button nose.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of NGC 2392, a planetary nebula commonly known as the Lion Nebula, revealing the cosmic object in striking infrared detail.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Those energetic forces heat the surrounding hydrogen gas and gradually sculpt the nebula into its striking appearance.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
And some worlds will look out onto a vast gaseous nebula, the remains of an ordinary star that once was and is no longer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The project uses Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, an instrument capable of resolving individual star clusters and nebulae in galaxies located tens of millions of light-years away.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
These glowing regions are known as emission nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025
He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard gave Dad a hundred or more photographs of stars, nebulae and solar eclipses.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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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