nebulae in English

noun
1
a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
Evolutionists believe that the solar system condensed out of a cloud of gas and dust called a nebula , hence the nebular hypothesis.
2
a clouded spot on the cornea causing defective vision.
The bruise over his eye had settled in to a purple nearly matching the nebula itself, but the swelling had reduced dramatically.

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1. A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae.

2. Some astronomers thought nebulae were part of our Milky Way Galaxy.

3. Spiral nebulae, like Andromeda, were clearly individual galaxies in their own right.

4. In 1755, Immanuel Kant used the term "island Universe" to describe these distant nebulae.

5. This makes H II regions more complicated than planetary nebulae, which have only one central ionising source.

6. Planetary nebulae were found by visual spectroscopy at Dun Echt and during an Andes expedition.

7. Messier object List of Messier objects New General Catalogue List of planetary nebulae "M 76 – Planetary Nebula".

8. 25 Accurate recordings of nebulae, comets and solar protuberances now extended the iconography of the natural world.

9. A third category, R, was later suggested by Sidney van den Bergh for associations that illuminate reflection nebulae.

10. When William Herschel compiled his extensive catalogue of nebulae, he was careful not to include most of the objects identified by Messier.

11. M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that includes NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071.

12. The camera has a modified infrared filter and a low-noise sensor with heightened hydrogen-alpha (H-alpha) sensitivity for improved capture of red hydrogen emission nebulae.

13. The galaxy was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered, and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850.

14. Colin Stanley Gum (4 June 1924 – 29 April 1960) was an Australian astronomer who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography.

15. Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe.

16. Also, the red shifts themselves were not constant, but varied in such manner as to lead to the conclusion that there was a definite relationship between amount of red-shift of nebulae, and their distance from observers.

17. In January 2017, NASA selected the new Small Explorer (SMEX) mission IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) which uses the polarization state of light from Astrophysical sources to provide insight into our understanding of X-ray production in objects such as neutron stars and pulsar wind nebulae, as well as stellar and supermassive black holes.

18. The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects Catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles [Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters].Because Messier was only interested in finding comets, he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them.The compilation of this list, in collaboration with his