spiral nebula

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Later that year, Payne won the inaugural Annie Jump Cannon Prize for contributions to astronomy, receiving $50 and a gold pin, designed by Cannon, in the form of a spiral nebula.

From Nature

But Slipher was a detail-oriented, methodical astronomer, who developed a reliable means of recording the spectra of planets, stars…and then most crucially of the spiral nebulae.

From Forbes

On the other hand, the evolution of the solar system from a rotating spiral nebula seems very probable.

From Project Gutenberg

Whereas, next to the star itself, the spiral nebula is the type object which occurs most frequently.

From Project Gutenberg

Around and around they would whirl in a spiral nebula, till one got a head start on a race for home and mother.

From Project Gutenberg