nebula
nebulae
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pluralof nebula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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In places where this dust lies close to hot, newly formed stars, it reflects their light instead of absorbing it, producing soft blue regions called reflection nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
These glowing regions are known as emission nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
That’s why such nebulae are often called stellar nurseries.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 31, 2025
As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes, they were intrigued by fuzzy patches of light called nebulae.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
When we look around us in our little corner of the Milky Way, we see many stars surrounded by spherical shells of glowing gas, the planetary nebulae.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
