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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Crab nebula
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A nearby nebula , orange and pink, was the lurid gaseous residue of an explosion.
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According to present-day ideas, a star begins its career by condensing out of a cloud of dust and gas known as a nebula .
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As before, the star condenses out of a nebula , heats up, and begins to shine by the hydrogen-into-helium process.
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By sheer coincidence Kappa Crucis lies at the edge of the dark nebula known as the Coal Sack.
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Explosions flared like novas inside a dust nebula .
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The nebula is nearly 50 light-years in diameter, and may owe much of its illumination to Deneb.
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The Eta Carinæ nebula is visible with the naked eye.
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Then, for a relative blink of about 1, 000 years or less, the star becomes a planetary nebula .