diffuse nebula
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diffuse nebula
[də′fyüs ′neb·yə·lə] (astronomy)
A type of nebula ranging from huge masses presenting relatively high surface brightness down to faint, milky structures that are detectable only with long exposures and special filters; may contain both dust and gas or may be purely gaseous.
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Arbitrary radiation never becomes black within adiabatic enclosures [72] and gases do not become black simply because they are expansive--a lesson learned from the
gaseous nebula [71, p.
It was another of the objects confirmed as a
gaseous nebula by Huggins, who studied it with a spectroscope in 1864.
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