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

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

Beginning around 1860, Kelvin and other physicists started estimating the ages of the Earth and Sun using the nebular hypothesis proposed around 1750 by Immanuel Kant and Pierre Laplace.

From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2021

As our solar system formed, the nebular cloud of dispersed particles developed distinct temperature zones.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Roberts and Common in England were among the first to obtain nebular photographs with extraordinary detail, also the brothers Henry of Paris.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck