Current Events > CE Word of the day number 997

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After the activity feed was discontinued I realized that I was nearing 1000 days in a row with these word of the day topics and I decided that that was probably a good time for me to stop posting these word of the day topics. The topic title is kind of a countdown to my last word of the day topic with number 1000.

If you want to post in this topic, try to use the word of the day in a sentence.

Today's word is nebula.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nebula

Did You Know?

Nebula comes to us from Latin, where it meant "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula referred to a cloudy speck or film on the eye that caused vision problems. It was first applied to great interstellar clouds of gas and dust in the early 1700s. The adjective nebulous comes from the same Latin root as nebula, but the first uses of nebulous don't appear in English until the late 1700s, well after the discovery of interstellar nebulae.

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