molecular cloud
English
Noun
molecular cloud (plural molecular clouds)
- (astronomy) A large and relatively dense cloud of cold gas and dust in interstellar space from which new stars are formed
Hypernyms
- nebula
- interstellar cloud
Coordinate terms
- intergalactic cloud
- solar nebula
- dark nebula
- absorption nebula
- Herbig-Haro object
Related terms
- molecular core
Translations
large dense cloud in space
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