spiral nebula

Noun

Meaning

(astronomy) a spiral-shaped nebula

(astronomy, obsolete) a spiral-shaped white nebula; these were generally determined to be spiral galaxies in the 20th century

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Hypernyms

galaxy extragalactic nebula

Hyponyms

Andromeda Galaxy

Examples

In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a " spiral nebula " (spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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