stellar nursery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stellar nursery
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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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
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
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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