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Definition of Diffuse nebula
1. Noun. A cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffuse Nebula
Literary usage of Diffuse nebula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1901)
"There are great diffuse nebula: covering many square degrees of the sky and
showing no definite outline; there are nebulae of definite but very irregular ..."
2. The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: A Series Delivered Before by Joseph Barrell, Charles Schuchert, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Richard Swann Lull, Ellsworth Huntington (1918)
"It may have had its origin in a diffuse nebula like Orion, and, according to the
disruption hypothesis of Cham- ..."
3. The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: A Series Delivered Before by Joseph Barrell, Charles Schuchert, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Richard Swann Lull, Ellsworth Huntington (1918)
"It may have had its origin in a diffuse nebula like Orion, and, according to the
disruption hypothesis of Cham- ..."
4. Diseases of the eye by John Herbert Parsons (1907)
"... diffuse nebula covering the pupillary area interferes more with vision than
a strictly localised dense leucoma, so long as the latter does not FIG. 110. ..."
5. Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1864)
"And, referring to this same order of objects, M. Arago says:—" The forms of very
large diffuse nebula do not appear to admit of definition; ..."
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