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 • Jul. 12, 2023

Of course, with its nebular nursery gone, we can’t confirm this easily.

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

It is hardly necessary to describe at length Descartes' mechanical theory of the evolution of the world-system, though an interest attaches to it as being the ancestor of the modern "nebular hypothesis."

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton