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# nebula

«nebula» in Mova's school dictionary: **a huge cloud of gas and dust in space** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nebula, nebulae or nebulas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A nebula is a huge cloud of gas and dust in space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#m1)

2) Some nebulae are places where new stars are being born; others are what is left after a star dies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In space science, famous ones are the Orion Nebula (seen with binoculars) and the Crab Nebula (left by an exploding star). Telescopes like Hubble and James Webb take colourful photos of nebulae. The Sun formed from a nebula long ago.

### examples

- The Orion Nebula is a nursery for new stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#x1)
- The telescope photo showed a glowing pink nebula. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#x2)
- A nebula is made of gas and dust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#x3)
- The Crab Nebula came from an exploded star. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#x4)
- Our Sun was born from a nebula. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#x5)
- The nebula looked like a giant space cloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/#x6)

### note

Plural nebulae («NEB-yoo-lee») or nebulas. Latin for «mist». A nebula is not a galaxy (a galaxy has billions of stars).

### In the corpora

- [Stars are born inside huge cold clouds of gas and dust called nebulae, where clumps collapse under their own gravity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/5/)
- [A planetary nebula has nothing to do with planets; it got the name because it looked like a round planet in old telescopes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nebula» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nebula/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.