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Synonyms for nebula

Grammar : Noun
Spell : neb-yuh-luh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɛb yə lə

Définition of nebula

Origin :
  • early 15c., nebule "a cloud, mist," from Latin nebula "mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation," figuratively "darkness, obscurity," from PIE *nebh- "cloud" (cf. Sanskrit nabhas- "vapor, cloud, mists, fog, sky;" Greek nephele, nephos "cloud;" German nebel "fog;" Old English nifol "dark, gloomy;" Welsh niwl "cloud, fog;" Slavic nebo).
  • Re-borrowed from Latin 1660s in sense of "cataracts in the eye;" astronomical meaning "cloud-like patch in the night sky" first recorded c.1730. As early as Hershel (1802) astronomers realized that some nebulae were star clusters, but certain distinction of relatively nearby cosmic gas clouds from distant galaxies was not made until 1920s, using the new 100-inch Mt. Wilson telescope.
  • noun cloud of gas
Example sentences :
  • Such were a few of the theorems to which his discovery of this nebula led him.
  • Extract from : « Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works » by Edward Singleton Holden
  • Nebulosa means cloudy or dark, from nebula, a cloud; from its color.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The visitor, by its attraction, drew from the nebula a wisp of gas.
  • Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
  • The starting-point, the nebula, is no figment of the scientific imagination.
  • Extract from : « The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) » by J. Arthur Thomson
  • The stars were almost gone, the center of the nebula only a faint wisp.
  • Extract from : « Out Around Rigel » by Robert H. Wilson
  • What, then, is the origin of a nebula, and what the physical explanation of that origin?
  • Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper
  • Huggins has found that the spectrum of this nebula is not gaseous.
  • Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper
  • Viewed in a very small telescope, this object resembles a nebula.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Heavens » by Robert Stawell Ball
  • The nebula Praesepe in Cancer, he was also able to resolve into a cluster of stars.
  • Extract from : « The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' » by Thomas Orchard
  • Nowhere else in the heavens is the architecture of a nebula so clearly displayed.
  • Extract from : « Pleasures of the telescope » by Garrett Serviss

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