nebular

American  

[neb-yuh-ler] / ˈnɛb jə lər /

adjective

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

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noun

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

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nebular

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

"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

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

That we may conceive, indeed, a nebular mass as visible at all, we must conceive it as very near us in comparison with the condensed stars brought into view by the modern telescopes.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe

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