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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

성운

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seong-un

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Nebula/ˈnɛb.jʊ.lə/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"우주망원경이 아름다운 성운의 모습을 포착했습니다."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette.

    "The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest nebulae visible to the naked eye."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived directly from Latin, meaning 'cloud', 'mist', or 'vapor'. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term was applied broadly to any luminous astronomical object that appeared diffuse and cloudy through a telescope before astronomers could resolve them into individual stars or recognize them as interstellar gas and dust clouds.

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