stellar nursery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stellar nursery
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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This immense scale highlights just how vast and dynamic this stellar nursery truly is.
From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025
Euclid also focused on Messier 78, a stellar nursery.
From New York Times • May 23, 2024
Webb's Near Infrared Camera traces the knots, arcs and filaments of gas and dust that are feeding this stellar nursery.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2023
Yet the red-brown "sand" in this image, and the blue "water," are actually individual stars mixed in to an emerging stellar nursery.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022
An image of a stellar nursery in the Carina Nebula about 7,600 light-years away shows massive young stars enrobed in swirling gas and dust.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2022
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