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nebula
/ˈnɛbjʊlə/
noun 3
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4ADJ.
far, interstellar, outside, same, solar, trifid
VERB + NEBULA
know
NEBULA + NOUN
sun
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
2
A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
3
A cloudy appearance in the urine.
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Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
Wiktionary02
A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.
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American astronomer Edwin Hubble published a paper in 1924 demonstrating that M31, known then as the Andromeda Nebula, lies far outside our own galaxy.
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We don't yet know which stars were formed in the same nebula as our sun.
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Do you know what a nebula is?
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At the time the photogravures were ordered no large scale photograph of the Trifid nebula had, so far as I am aware, ever been published.
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