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

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

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

When, with its giant reflecting telescope, photographs were taken of the region of Nova Persei after it had become comparatively faint, it was found that there was an extraordinarily faint nebulosity surrounding the star.

From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall