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

A close examination of these photographs has given the present writer the impression that the dark lanes and spots are in the nebulosity, and that the nebulosity is mixed up with the stars.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

There are bristling comets, they are like the skins of beasts with their hair on, and are surrounded by a nebulosity.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

The convolutions of its spiral are filled with numerous starlike condensations, themselves engulfed in nebulosity.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck