Mar 31, 2019
Nebula
Current Usage - “a cloud of dust and gas in outer space”
History - Originally derived from the Latin language, “nebule” and meant “mist” or “cloud”. The words oldest English usage dates back to the 1600s. Where the term instead referred to a “cloudy spec or film on the eye which caused vision problems”, or “cataracts in the eye”. Famous Astronomer, Sir William Herschel was one of the first to use the term in its modern day usage. The word’s root, “nebh” comes from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning “cloud”