nebular

American  

[neb-yuh-ler] / ˈnɛb yə 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.

Example Sentences

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

However, these nebular environments are vastly different, which affects the stars they create.

From Scientific American

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

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

In other words, Arrokoth is a product of quite localized particle-cloud collapse of nebular material, and not so much a hierarchical assembly of a variety of matter from across its orbit.

From Scientific American