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How to use nebula in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Nebula means a cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes). Example: “The Pleiades are surrounded by a reflection nebula.”

Examples of nebula by meaning

nounA 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.2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition

More sentences with nebula

  • The Pleiades are surrounded by a reflection nebula.From the entry reflection nebula
  • The Horsehead Nebula is a typical dark nebula, and is famous for resembling the head of a horse.From the entry dark nebula
  • Sketching galaxies and nebulae at the eyepiece, in low light levels, is no easy matter.2001, Grant Privett, Paul Parsons, “Deep-sky Observing”, in The Deep-sky Observer’s Year: A Guide to Observing Deep-sky Objects throughout…. From the entry bulldog clip
  • All of the sources consist of a bright core and an extended nebula.2000 July, T. Miyata et al., “Spatially Resolved Spectra of the Red Rectangle in the N-band”, in Ryszard Szczerba, Sławomir K. Górny…. From the entry Red Rectangle
  • The Orion nebula is an emission nebula—it glows with its own light.2000 October 12, Prof. Daniel Styer, “Nebulae”, in Oberlin College Physics Department, retrieved 07 Apr 2014. From the entry emission nebula
  • The Orion nebula has been replaced with some other astronomical scape, far bleaker in its appearance but more realistic.2016, Austin Duffy, This Living and Immortal Thing, Granta Books, →ISBN. From the entry screensaver
  • The Citadel is surrounded by a blue-tinted reflection nebula.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Serpent Nebula…. From the entry tinted
  • The light of the nebula is actually light from the Citadel, scattered and reflected back at the station.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Serpent Nebula…. From the entry tinted
  • The resulting contraction of the solar nebula caused most of its mass to be concentrated in the form of the protosun.2007, Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, Introduction to Planetary Science: The Geological Perspective, page 52. From the entry protosun
  • Friday catblogging became a hit, and soon even NASA was playing along by posting pictures of the Cat's Eye nebula.2004, Time, volume 164, page 170. From the entry catblogging
  • Our study shows that chondrules formed at higher pressures relative to canonical solar nebula pressures and that some chondrules and CAIs formed penecontemporaneously.2000 December 1, Albert Galy et al., “The Formation of Chondrules at High Gas Pressures in the Solar Nebula”, in Science, volume 290…. From the entry penecontemporaneously
  • Winson tried to put a good face on the fact that Lin's design occupied a place in the company's consciousness about as remote as an anagalactic nebula.2003, Lis Harris, Tilting at Mills, →ISBN. From the entry anagalactic
  • Nebulae hurled apart by a titanic superexplosion swirl in huge eddies, whirlpools of galaxies race apart, planetary systems are born, gaseous nebulae and galactic systems collide.2000, Mikhail Vasilyev, Kirill Stanyukovich, Matter and Man, University Press of the Pacific, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry superexplosion
  • Enormous superflares begin to blast out from the heart of the nebula, the central region that is on its way to becoming a star, our Sun.1977, Ben Bova, Trudy E. Bell, Close: New Worlds, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 207. From the entry superflare
  • This superimposed argon exerted throughout an unimaginable rigorous pressure over the whole orbical nebula, translative to a sphere of petrified ice and sundry ice ages following relentlessly one another.1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 37. From the entry orbical

Meaning of nebula

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

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Questions about nebula in a sentence

How do you use nebula in a sentence?
Nebula is used as a noun. For example: “The Pleiades are surrounded by a reflection nebula.”
What is a short sentence with nebula?
“The Pleiades are surrounded by a reflection nebula.”
What does nebula mean?
Nebula means a cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

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