Nebula Sentence Examples

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  • The drawing of the nebula of Orion was published in the Phil.

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  • Antoniadi discovered that a nebula surrounded it.

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  • In fact a little consideration of the theory of probabilities will show it to be infinitely probable that such an object should really have some movement of rotation, no matter by what causes the nebula may have originated.

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  • The condensation of a nebula could be followed in the same manner as we can study the growth of the trees in the forest, by comparing the trees of various ages which the forest contains at the same time.

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  • The Pencil Nebula is almost exactly on the galactic equator.

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  • The solar system formed from a large gas nebula that had some dust grains in it.

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  • Is a solar nebula the reason or is gravity the reason?

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  • We get some evidence to support the nebula theories from looking a to support the nebula theories from looking a to support the nebula theories from looking at other star systems.

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  • The standard nebula filter takes out a larger chunk of emission from orange out to the start of the nebula filter takes out a larger chunk of emission from orange out to the start of the nebula emission lines.

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  • From 1848 to 1878 it was but with few interruptions employed for observations of nebulae (see Nebula); and many previously unknown features in these objects were revealed by it, especially the similarity of "annular" and "planetary" nebulae, and the remarkable "spiral" configuration prevailing in many of the brighter nebulae.

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  • When examined with a telescope of power insufficient to separate the individual stars, a cluster appears like a nebula.

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  • A H I nebula is made of neutral atomic hydrogen.

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  • The expended gas frequently forms an impressive display called a planetary nebula that fades gradually over thousand of years.

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  • Our own Sun may eject a similar planetary nebula some 6 billion years from now.

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  • Polychrome The trifid nebula from CFHT -- very pretty.

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  • The crab nebula is the brightest supernova remnant in the sky.

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  • Instead, they absorb ultraviolet photons from hot stars which are near or embedded in the nebula.

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  • This process often produces a planetary nebula, with the white dwarf star at its center.

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  • It continues to lose mass via a stellar wind as it dies, forming a planetary nebula.

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  • In other planetary nebulae, like the Ring Nebula (NGC 6720 ), we view the donut from the top.

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  • They are relatively pristine remnants of the nebula from which the entire solar system was formed.

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  • The Crab Nebula is an example of a supernova remnant.

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  • This version is, if anything, even more spacey, dubbed out and spooked; an Eagle ride through a nebula on Mogadon.

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  • Finally, the star ceases nuclear burning and becomes a white dwarf, while the expanding nebula mergers with the interstellar medium.

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  • Some of the energy radiated away is keeping the nebula glowing.

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  • Published in 1985, an expanded version of a novella of the same name published in Analog magazine in 1977, Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for best novel.

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  • Featuring a loner (and arguable a loser), the quintessential tough-guy down on his luck, the online playing field, the mysterious female sidekick, Neuromancer won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.

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  • Ursula Le Guin's now-classic 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.

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  • An unusual entry into our gender-bender category - a novel by Golden Age icon Isaac Asimov, known for years for the chasteness of his prose, The Gods Themselves was published in 1972 and won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.

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  • Aside from airing episode synopses (and sometimes entire episodes) the channel also features news of the science fiction world on the "Sci Fi Wire" and has won many awards (including the Hugo and Nebula) for fiction published online.

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  • Kara Thrace's viper is destroyed in a nebula.

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  • Of multiple stars the most famous is 0 Orionis, situated near the densest part of the great Orion nebula.

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  • Starting from a widely diffused nebula, more or less uniform, we find that, in consequence of gravitational instability, it will tend to condense about a number of nuclei.

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  • Again by Sir William Huggins, the spectrum of the Orion nebula was photographed on the 7th of March 1882; and the method has gradually become nearly exclusive in the study of nebular emanations.

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  • The crab nebula is the remnant of a supernova that was observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054.

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  • The rotation of the planets on their axes is also explained as a consequence of the nebular theory, for at the time of the first formation of the planet it must have participated in the rotation of the whole nebula, and by the subsequent contraction of the planet the speed with which the rotation was performed must have been accelerated.

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  • He supposes that evolution is primarily integration, from the incoherent to the coherent, exemplified in the solar nebula evolving into the solar system; secondly differentiation, from the more homogeneous to the more heterogeneous, exemplified by the solar system evolving into different bodies; thirdly determination, from the indefinite to the definite, exemplified by the solar system with different bodies evolving into an order.

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  • Subsequent photographs showed that this nebula, which consisted mainly of two incomplete rings of nebulosity, was expanding outwards at the rate of from 2" to 3" per day.

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  • In this connexion it may be noted that the spectrum of Nova Persei, after passing through a stage in which it resembled that of a planetary nebula, has now become of the Wolf-Rayet type.

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  • We have thus grounds for believing that the original nebula will separate into a series of rings all revolving in the same direction with a central nebulous mass in the interior.

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  • Earlier still the sun must have reached to where Neptune now revolves on the confines of our system, but the mass of the sun could not undergo an expansion so prodigious without being made vastly more rarefied than at present, and hence we are led by this mode of reasoning to the conception of the primaeval nebula from which our system has originated.

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  • It is indeed very doubtful whether any changes of a nebula have ever been seen which are of the same character as the changes Herschel's theory would require.

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  • Nebular chemistry was initiated by the same investigator when, on the 29th of August 1864, he observed the bright-line spectrum of a planetary nebula in Draco.

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  • In attempting to pronounce on the evidence with regard to Herschel's theory, we must at once admit that the transmutation of a nebula into a star has never been seen.

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  • A special study was made of the nebula of Orion, and the resulting large drawing gives an extremely good representation of this complicated object.

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  • It now seems probable that the spiral nebula is the fittest illustration of the transformation of a diffused nebula into a system of sun and planets.

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  • It may be urged in reply that the synthetic philosophy could be made consistent by transferring the knowable resistance and persistence of the unknowable noumenon to knowable phenomena on the one hand, and on the other hand by maintaining that all phenomena from the original nebula to the rise of consciousness are only ` 0 impressions produced on consciousness through any of the senses," after all.

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  • There is no difficulty in conceiving how a nebula, quite independently of any internal motion of its parts, shall also have had as a whole a movement of rotation.

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  • Laplace supposed the existence of a primeval nebula which extended so far out as to fill all the space at present occupied by the planets.

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