nebula

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A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.

A cloudy appearance in the urine.

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Located in some distant nebula I do what I do so that the universal balance I'm a part of won't lose its balance. Antonio Porchia

Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula. Brandon Boyd

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light. Ragnar Frisch

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. Ferdinand de Saussure

It is much more natural and reasonable to assume that a nebula is not a unique and solitary sun, but a system of numerous suns. Immanuel Kant

Absorbed ultraviolet light energises the shell of nebulous gas around the central star, causing it to appear as a brightly coloured planetary nebula. Source: Internet

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