nebula

noun

/ˈnɛbjʊlə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).

borrowed from nebula

Definitions

1
A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star…
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.
A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
A cloudy appearance in the urine.

The neighborhood

neighbornebulosity
neighbornebulous
neighbornebular
neighborplerion
neighbornova remnant
neighborsupernova remnant
neighborHerbig-Haro object
neighborBok globule
neighborinterstellar cloud
neighborintergalactic cloud
neighborhigh velocity cloud

Derived

Crab Nebula, dark nebula, diffuse nebula, emission nebula, enormous Lyman-alpha nebula, nebulalike, nebulium, nebulization, planetary nebula, preplanetary nebula, protoplanetary nebula, pulsar wind nebula, reflection nebula, solar nebula, stellar nebula, supernebula

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nebula. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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