How to Use nebula in a Sentence

nebula

noun
  • That brings us back to the term nebula.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2025
  • She got chased out of her nebula by a bully named Lewis and needs help.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
  • This is called an emission nebula, where stars can be seen forming.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The jet bursts out through the clouds of the nebula and extends light-years into space.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The nebula appears during the first half of the night.
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The nebula will appear as a small, faint patch of light about a quarter of the width of a full moon.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Stars not just in front of, but within the dusty nebula, poke through all but the densest gas.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time researchers have photographed the nebula.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
  • Here are views of the Southern Ring nebula and its pair of stars.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 12 July 2022
  • Many nebulas—gas clouds—show a distinct greenish hue.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The nebula our sun produces won't be as bright as the ones produced by bigger stars.
    — David Freeman /, NBC News, 10 May 2018
  • As if amid a crystal nebula, the blues take on swirling hues of purple and silver.
    — Greyson Ferguson, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Once beheld, each of the paintings is like an outer-space nebula brought down to earth.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Stars are born in clouds of gas and dust, which is why nebulas are hotbeds for new star formation.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Want to capture your own nebula mosaics?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The darkness in the nebula is mostly due to thick dust blocking the light of the stars behind it.
    — Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The galactic core is a rich region packed with billions of stars, nebulas and dust lanes.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Her hair is a luminescent gray — less like an overcast sky, more like a dusty nebula.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The cliff-like structure of the nebula is actually made up of gas.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 July 2022
  • The front rows are brimming with stars, nebulas, and supernovas.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • Second, there are the dual searchlight-like rays emerging from both sides of this nebula.
    — Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Finally, the nebula fades away and only a white dwarf is left behind.
    — Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Want to capture a nebula shining thousands of light-years from Earth?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Want to capture a nebula shining thousands of light-years from Earth?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The nebula itself glows brilliantly under the light of these young, bright stars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • 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
  • Astronomers believe that this nebula is filled with dim stellar bodies called brown dwarfs.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, the close positioning of the two stars might explain why the nebula is oblong.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • In the nebula, this feature may be caused by jets coming from the dying star, pushing the inner gas out.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026

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