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n. - Immense bodies of gas or dust in space.

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  • Fifty years ago it was thought that in the heavenly bodies called nebulae the material of which the world was made had been discovered.
  • Cepheid variables located within them as standard candles to determine their distance, showing the "nebulae" were too distant to be part of the Milky Way and hence other...
  • Cloud-like structures he dubbed "nebulae" pointed to a universe far greater than imagined.
  • If the spiral nebulae have been formed in accordance with
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