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

Certain spots in the firmament which presented, even to the most powerful of the old telescopes, the appearance of nebulosity, or haze, had been regarded for a long time as confirming the theory of Laplace.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.

It might then be dimly lighted by the surrounding nebulosity, or by a luminous envelope in its own atmosphere.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William