How to Use nebula in a Sentence

nebula

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], al, 12 July 2022
• The view zooms in to show how the nebula looks to the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra telescopes.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], 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
• The agency's panoramic view of the nebula was captured in about an hour and – at the time, at least – displayed an unprecedented sharpness and scale.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
• These nebulae are the expanding outer gas envelopes of small to medium stars in their final death throes.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024