different between stardust vs nebula

English

Etymology

star +? dust.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st??.d?st/

Noun

stardust (usually uncountable, plural stardusts)

1. (figuratively) a powder with supposedly magic or charismatic qualities.

   My sister's eyes were full of stardust, and she'd spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.

2. A type of cosmic dust that condensed from cooling ejected gases from individual presolar stars and incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
   • We are all made of stardust.
   • 2004, Ann N. Nguyen and Ernst Zinner, "Discovery of Ancient Silicate Stardust in a Meteorite", Science:

     Presolar grains were isolated in primitive meteorites only 15 years ago. These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta.

3. (informal, dated, astronomy) A distant cluster of stars, resembling a cloud, the individual stars of which cannot be resolved.

Synonyms

• (particles): cosmic dust

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (nephél?, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: neb'j?-l?, IPA^(key): /?n?bj?l?/

Noun

nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas)

1. (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
2. (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
3. (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine

Derived terms

Related terms

• nebulosity
• nebulous
• nebular

Translations

See also

• plerion
• nova remnant
• supernova remnant
• Herbig-Haro object
• Bok globule
• interstellar cloud
• intergalactic cloud
• high velocity cloud

Anagrams

• Buelna, Nabeul, unable, unbale

Interlingua

Noun

nebula (plural nebulas)

1. fog, mist, haze
2. (pathology) nebula

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nebula. Doublet of nebbia, which was inherited.

Noun

nebula f (plural nebule)

1. (archaic) fog, mist; cloud
2. nebula

Related terms

• nebbia
• nebulizzare
• nebulosa

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ne?el?, from Proto-Indo-European *néb?os (“cloud”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (néphos), ?????? (nephél?), Old High German nebul, Sanskrit ???? (nábhas), Old Church Slavonic ???? (nebo).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ne.bu.la/, [?n?b???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ne.bu.la/, [?n??bul?]

Noun

nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension

1. fog
2. cloud
3. vapor
4. vocative singular of nebula

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• c?l?g?

Derived terms

• nebul?sus

Descendants

Noun

nebul? f

1. ablative singular of nebula

References

• nebula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nebula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nebula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette