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

The entire underside of the dome looked like space as seen from the Hubble telescope: A dusty spiral nebula billowed up, a galaxy of stars twinkled, and meteorites whizzed across the ceiling.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

Lord Rosse, however, found it to be really a spiral nebula, the ring running into a series of spiral coils of nebulous matter, the outlying parts being connected with the main part by curved bands.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George

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

Mark this, which is a marvel in itself: It had the form of a spiral nebula.

From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman