How to Use nebula in a Sentence

nebula

noun
Definition of nebulanext
  • These conditions—two massive stars existing within a nebula and their very different properties—are outside the norm.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Near the tip of the Hunter’s sword, lurking some 1,350 light years from Earth, the nebula looks like a mere smudge in the sky.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Here are views of the Southern Ring nebula and its pair of stars.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 12 July 2022
  • The view zooms in to show how the nebula looks to the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra telescopes.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Lupus 3 is far from the only dark nebula up in the sky.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
  • She got chased out of her nebula by a bully named Lewis and needs help.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
  • This isn’t the first time researchers have photographed the nebula.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
  • Between the two lies the extent of the Tri-County Fair: a nebula of vivid lights, fried food, and laughter.
    — David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • This is a nebula that surrounds a dying star, all of which is about 2,000 light-years from Earth.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2022
  • The reddish nebula at upper right is full of stars at least 10 times as massive as the sun.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The hazy glow of gas and dust that make up the nebula are stark against a milky sky dotted with the sparkle of stars in the iconic Hubble image.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2022
  • The nebula our sun produces won't be as bright as the ones produced by bigger stars.
    — David Freeman /, NBC News, 10 May 2018
  • The nebula is imaged here in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There are four colors to choose from: white marble, black, blue nebula, and opal.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 15 June 2019
  • Once beheld, each of the paintings is like an outer-space nebula brought down to earth.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • This is terrible since the light from the full moon wipes out deep sky objects like the Orion nebula.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The nebula has a diameter that is about 60 percent larger than the Earth's Moon in the night sky.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The cliff-like structure of the nebula is actually made up of gas.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 July 2022
  • Cue two spectacular images of the Sh2-54 nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust from which stars are born.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the close positioning of the two stars might explain why the nebula is oblong.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • The brightest star in this image belongs to Orion’s belt, and to its right lies the ominous black cloud of the Horsehead nebula.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the red-colored stars in the image are still surrounded by gas from the nebula.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The nebula, which measures just around seven light-years long, is part of a much larger region of space called NGC 2264.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The Crab nebula hosts the remains of a star gone supernova.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The nebula is made up of a dying star that has ejected its outer layer, forming a shell of gas.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 July 2022
  • The nebula itself glows brilliantly under the light of these young, bright stars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • This is called an emission nebula, where stars can be seen forming.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The vivid colors of the nebula are due to the radiation given off by the juvenile stars.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The pulsar rotates every 33 milliseconds and shoots out radio waves and light which help to shape the nebula as a whole.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2017
  • Kant was right: such nebulae truly were island universes, and the Milky Way was merely one among many.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023

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