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

Photographs show that the brighter stars of the Pleiades are involved in nebulosity.

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

His mental nebulosity is resolving itself into something concrete, which shall weigh upon him for a while and propel him in the direction of Atheism and Demagogy.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

In August, 1901, an enveloping nebula was discovered, and a month later certain wisps of this nebulosity appeared to have moved bodily, at a speed seventy-fold greater than ever previously observed in the stellar universe.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck