nebulosity
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The hot central star can be seen faintly near the center of the nebulosity.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Later, the stars wander out of their nursery to seek their fortunes in the Milky Way, stellar adolescents still surrounded by tuffs of glowing nebulosity, residues still gravitationally attached of their amniotic gas.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
His sonnet on Ben Nevis, 1818, is also an utterance of scepticism—speaking of heaven and hell as misty surmises, and of “the world of thought and mental might” as a realm of nebulosity.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
The ‘glow’ which surrounds them has been observed in a few instances to have vanished without leaving any trace of nebulosity behind, but the causes which have brought about such a result are entirely unknown.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
I entered Florence late in the afternoon, under cover of a fog that would have done credit to London in the depths of its November nebulosity.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
These have no tails, and are probably mere nebulosities, without solid nuclei.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
They appear as pale nebulosities, rounded or oval, more condensed toward the center, without, however, showing any distinct nucleus.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)
In their turn, again, these rings of cosmical matter, excited by a rotary motion about the central mass, would have been broken up and decomposed into secondary nebulosities, that is to say, into planets.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
Whence came these sparkling nebulosities, these mists of light?
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
As for his manners, I can only say I have heard views with which I was in full personal agreement made more offensive by a dogmatic advocate than were these monstrous but quite amiable nebulosities.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
