A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.
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Nebula
/ˈnɛbjʊlə/
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ambiguitycosmic cloud
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gas cloud
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nebula of lyranebular hypothesisnebulositynebulous starsplanetary nebularing nebulathe coalsackzodiacal light
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Using the Hooker Telescope — the largest telescope of its day — at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, astronomer Edwin Hubble found that some nebulae, such as the Andromeda nebula, were separate galaxies like our own Milky Way galaxy.
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The Hubble Telescope has given us spectacular pictures from space, from the dramatic image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, some 6,500 to 7,000 light years from Earth, to a snapshot of nearly 10,000 galaxies, including some that may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old.
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American astronomer Edwin Hubble published a paper in 1924 demonstrating that M31, known then as the Andromeda Nebula, lies far outside our own galaxy.
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