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

Speculated concerning the Milky Way, the nebulosity of stars, the origin and growth of solar systems.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

Nebulæ may have any of the forms which have been described; and, in 1811, he gives examples of immense spaces in the sky covered with diffused and very faint nebulosity.

From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Holden, Edward Singleton

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