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

Another objection is that there is no known nebulosity near at hand with which to connect the climatic vicissitudes of the last glacial period.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

The nebulosity of the ten-foot can be resolved into stars by the twenty-foot, and so on.

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

This star is plainly enveloped in nebulosity, that is unquestionably connected with the larger mass of which it appears to form a satellite.

From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman