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
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
Beginning around 1860, Kelvin and other physicists started estimating the ages of the Earth and Sun using the nebular hypothesis proposed around 1750 by Immanuel Kant and Pierre Laplace.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2021
As our solar system formed, the nebular cloud of dispersed particles developed distinct temperature zones.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
But there are some serious physical difficulties in the way of the acceptance of the nebular hypothesis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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