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

In the original negatives of subjects 10 and 12, there are faint dark rings immediately surrounding some of the stars in the denser parts of the nebulosity.

From Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector by Keeler, James Edward

Prof. Barnard describes some regions in the constellation Taurus containing “dark lanes” in a groundwork of faint nebulosity.

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