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spiral nebula

NOUN
  1. a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center

How To Use spiral nebula In A Sentence

  • When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
  • For many years there had been a controversy concerning certain spiral nebular objects found in the night sky.
  • When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
  • Hubble's discovery showed that spiral nebulae are entire systems of stars in their own right, as huge and as packed with stars as our own Milky Way.
  • Hubble realized that these spiral nebulae were so far away they were actually galaxies - separate cities of stars - far beyond our own Milky Way.
  • The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194.
  • When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
  • Perhaps the original spiral nebula, M51 is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy.
  • Edwin Hubble quickly began a detailed study of the spiral nebulae.
  • Following Frischauer's example Pemberton stirred the mixture and watched the egg swirl into the form of a spiral nebula. LOHENGRIN
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