planetary nebula
noun
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Sense 1 noun
a nebula that was once thought to be a star with its planets but is now thought to be a very hot star surrounded by an expanding envelope of ionized gases that emit a fluorescent glow because of intense radiation from the star
Types & categories
- nebula hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | nebula |