A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.
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Nebula
//ˈnɛbjʊlə//
Synonyms for "nebula" (20 found)
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Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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6 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
98 translations across 75 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- mjegullnajë noun (a space cloud)
- nebulozë noun (a space cloud)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νεφέλιον noun (a space cloud)
Arabic
2 entries- سديم noun (a space cloud)
- سَدِيم noun (a space cloud)
Armenian
1 entries- միգամածություն noun (a space cloud)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dumanlıq noun (a space cloud)
Basque
1 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
Belarusian
1 entries- тума́ннасць noun (a space cloud)
Bengali
1 entries- নীহারিকা noun (a space cloud)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мъглявина́ noun (a space cloud)
Burmese
1 entries- နက်ဗျူလာ noun (a space cloud)
Catalan
1 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 星雲 /星云 noun (a space cloud)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 星雲 /星云 noun (a space cloud)
Cornish
1 entries- niwlen ster noun (a space cloud)
Czech
1 entries- mlhovina noun (a space cloud)
Danish
1 entries- stjernetåge noun (a space cloud)
Dutch
2 entries- nevel noun (a space cloud)
- nevelvlek noun (a space cloud)
Esperanto
1 entries- nebulozo noun (a space cloud)
Estonian
2 entries- udu noun (a space cloud)
- udukogu noun (a space cloud)
Faroese
1 entries- stjørnutoka noun (a space cloud)
Finnish
3 entries- kaasusumu noun (a space cloud)
- nebula noun (a space cloud)
- tähtisumu noun (a space cloud)
French
1 entries- nébuleuse noun (a space cloud)
Galician
1 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
Georgian
1 entries- ნისლეული noun (a space cloud)
German
2 entries- Nebel noun (a space cloud)
- Wolke noun (a space cloud)
Greek
1 entries- νεφέλωμα noun (a space cloud)
Gujarati
2 entries- નિહારિકા noun (a space cloud)
- નેબ્યુલા noun (a space cloud)
Hebrew
2 entries- עַרְפִלִּית noun (a space cloud)
- ערפילית noun (a space cloud)
Hindi
2 entries- निहारिका noun (a space cloud)
- नीहारिका noun (a space cloud)
Hungarian
2 entries- csillagköd noun (a space cloud)
- nebula noun (a space cloud)
Icelandic
1 entries- stjörnuþoka noun (a space cloud)
Ido
1 entries- nebulozo noun (a space cloud)
Indonesian
1 entries- nebula noun (a space cloud)
Interlingua
1 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
Irish
1 entries- réaltnéal noun (a space cloud)
Italian
1 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
Japanese
1 entries- 星雲 noun (a space cloud)
Kannada
1 entries- ನೀಹಾರಿಕೆ noun (a space cloud)
Kazakh
1 entries- тұмандық noun (a space cloud)
Khmer
2 entries- ណេប៊ុយឡា noun (a space cloud)
- នេប៊ូឡា noun (a space cloud)
Korean
1 entries- 성운 noun (a space cloud)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тумандуулук noun (a space cloud)
Latin
1 entries- nebula noun (a space cloud)
Latvian
1 entries- miglājs noun (a space cloud)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ū̃kas noun (a space cloud)
Macedonian
1 entries- маглина noun (a space cloud)
Malay
1 entries- nebula noun (a space cloud)
Malayalam
1 entries- നീഹാരിക noun (a space cloud)
Mongolian
1 entries- мананцар noun (a space cloud)
Māori
1 entries- puehu tuarangi noun (a space cloud)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- nebuloz noun (a space cloud)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stjernetåke noun (a space cloud)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stjernetåke noun (a space cloud)
Persian
2 entries- سحابی noun (a space cloud)
- میغواره noun (a space cloud)
Polish
1 entries- mgławica noun (a space cloud)
Portuguese
2 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
- nébula noun (a space cloud)
Romanian
1 entries- nebuloasă noun (a space cloud)
Russian
1 entries- тума́нность noun (a space cloud)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- màglica noun (a space cloud)
- màglina noun (a space cloud)
- ма̀глина noun (a space cloud)
- ма̀глица noun (a space cloud)
Slovak
1 entries- hmlovina noun (a space cloud)
Slovene
2 entries- meglíca noun (a space cloud)
- nébula noun (a space cloud)
Spanish
2 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
- nébula noun (a space cloud)
Swedish
1 entries- nebulosa noun (a space cloud)
Tagalog
3 entries- bigha noun (a space cloud)
- nebula noun (a space cloud)
- ulanag noun (a space cloud)
Tajik
2 entries- меғвора noun (a space cloud)
- туманот noun (a space cloud)
Tamil
1 entries- நெபுலா noun (a space cloud)
Thai
1 entries- เนบิวลา noun (a space cloud)
Turkish
1 entries- nebula noun (a space cloud)
Turkmen
1 entries- dumanlyk noun (a space cloud)
Ukrainian
1 entries- тума́нність noun (a space cloud)
Urdu
2 entries- سَدِیم noun (a space cloud)
- صَحابِیَہ noun (a space cloud)
Uzbek
1 entries- tumanlik noun (a space cloud)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tinh vân noun (a space cloud)
Volapük
1 entries- silefog noun (a space cloud)
Welsh
1 entries- nifiwl noun (a space cloud)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
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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