nebular
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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The eye is immediately drawn to the white nebular at centre-left where a relatively young - a few million years old - star called S1 is lighting up everything around it.
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2023
However, these nebular environments are vastly different, which affects the stars they create.
From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023
"During the lifetime of a nebular protoplanetary disk, the amount of gas in the disk is decreasing with time," Jacobson emphasized.
From Salon • May 27, 2022
As our solar system formed, the nebular cloud of dispersed particles developed distinct temperature zones.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Keeler and Campbell have shown that nearly every line of the nebular spectrum is a counterpart of a prominent dark line in the spectrum of the brighter stars of the constellation of Orion.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
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