spiral nebula

1. 1.

   a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center

   Synonymsspiral galaxy

   Broadergalaxy

   NarrowerAndromeda galaxy

Questions about spiral nebula

What does spiral nebula mean?

spiral nebula means "a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center".

What is another word for spiral nebula?

Close synonyms include spiral galaxy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spiral nebula a common word?

spiral nebula is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.