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stellar nursery

American  
[stel-er nur-suh-ree] / ˈstɛl ər ˈnɜr sə ri /

noun

Astronomy.
  1. a molecular cloud in which new stars are being formed.


Etymology

Origin of stellar nursery

First recorded in 1905–10


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To get to the bottom of this mysterious phenomenon, the team set their sights on MC 27, a stellar nursery located approximately 450 light-years from earth.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

Just looking at those numbers statistically it’s not possible to discern the origin of the sun: it could have come from either kind of stellar nursery.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 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

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

This striking 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image shows the rich tapestry of a small region of the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery 1,500 light years away.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015

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