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nebular

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[neb-yuh-ler] / ˈnɛb jə lər /

adjective

  1. Astronomy. of or relating to a nebula, an interstellar cloud of gas and dust.


noun

  1. Astronomy. a nebula around a star in an early stage of its formation.

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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

This new image was taken in the near-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum, in which the nebular gas and dust is more transparent than in the visible spectrum.

From Salon Oct. 20, 2022

In the same way, near the poles of the nebula, where orbits were slow, the nebular material fell directly into the center.

From Textbooks Oct. 13, 2016

Further east street lamps stretched away into converging perspective, which vanished to a point in the faint nebular radiance above the East River.

From Quick Action by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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