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 Ellsworth Huntington
There was no connecting nebulosity between these objects, the tails of the two smaller not reaching each other, or the large comet.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Nebulæ may have any of the forms which have been described; and, in 1811, he gives examples of immense spaces in the sky covered with diffused and very faint nebulosity.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward Singleton Holden
They are transparent nebulosities, of extreme lightness, without mass nor density.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby
Existence, to follow out the argument, is not always painted in shadow, its horizon obscured by dark-tinted nebulosities!
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
These have no tails, and are probably mere nebulosities, without solid nuclei.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Also in the constellation Cygnus, Barnard has discovered very extensive nebulosities of a delicate filmy cloudlike nature which are wholly invisible with telescopes, but very obvious on highly sensitive plates with long exposures.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
No one, who has not been stultified by theological nebulosities, ought to fail to know, as we knew when we first began to go to school, that a blind man cannot see anything at all.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 by Various
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