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Nebula

The Crab nebula photographed by Hubble. Probably the most famous of all supernova remnants
Portion of the Carina nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies. It is the home of Eta Carinae, a huge young star

A nebula[1] is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases in a galaxy.

The Persian astronomer, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, mentioned a true nebula for the first time in his book, Book of Fixed Stars (964).[2] He said that there was a "little cloud" near the Andromeda galaxy.[3]

  1. ↑ Latin for "cloud"; pl. nebulae, nebulæ, or nebulas. Nebula, Online Etymology Dictionary
  2. ↑ Kenneth Glyn Jones 1991. Messier's nebulae and star clusters. Cambridge University Press. p1 ISBN 0521370795
  3. ↑ Harrison, T.G. (March 1984). "The Orion Nebula — where in history is it". Royal Astronomical Society Quarterly Journal. 25 (1): 70–73. Bibcode:1984QJRAS..25...65H.
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