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

Optically it was always a puzzle, but photographs by Roberts of England first revealed the true spiral, with ringlike formations partially distinct, and knots of condensing nebulosity as of companion stars in the making.

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

It might then be dimly lighted by the surrounding nebulosity, or by a luminous envelope in its own atmosphere.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William