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

Moreover, those who maintain the existence of nebulæ, do not refer the nebulosity to extreme distance; they declare it a real and not merely a perspective nebulosity.

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

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

I entered Florence late in the afternoon, under cover of a fog that would have done credit to London in the depths of its November nebulosity.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard