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
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
Scientists have captured a dramatic and violent image of the collision between two young stars that tore apart their stellar nursery.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2017
In perhaps its most iconic image, called “Pillars of Creation,” the Hubble recorded baby stars burning their way out of biblical-looking mountains of gas and dust in a stellar nursery known as the Eagle nebula.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2015
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