spiral nebula
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With their heads in a spiral nebula of billions, Congressmen were treated to a floor show which brought the question of budgets down to its simplest terms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around and around they would whirl in a spiral nebula, till one got a head start on a race for home and mother.
From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen
The authors go further back and endeavor to account for the origin of the spiral nebula, but this phase of the subject is not vital to their hypothesis.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
The great spiral nebula in Andromeda has a continuous spectrum crossed by a multitude of absorption lines.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
The most interesting specimen of a spiral nebula is situated in Canes Venatici.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
