A three-judge federal appeals court panel will hear ByteDance's fight to continue operating the video social media app TikTok in the United States without selling its assets. ... Read full Story
Following a second attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump on Sunday, politicians across the spectrum condemned the use of violence in politics. ... Read full Story
California residents are bracing for an early winter storm that is predicted to dust the Sierra Nevada with snow, according to the National Weather Service. ... Read full Story
Former President Donald Trump said he is "safe" after the FBI is "investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination" while the presidential candidate was on his golf course in West Palm Beach on Sunday. ... Read full Story
A bomb threat Sunday at Clark State College in Springfield, Ohio, prompted officials to close the physical campus and hold classes virtually this week, school officials said. ... Read full Story
Favorable weather and unstinting efforts by firefighters are helping to bring a trio of destructive wildfires in California under control, state and local officials said Saturday. ... Read full Story
A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed. ... Read full Story
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak at a Washington, D.C., awards ceremony, her running mate Tim Walz is in Wisconsin and GOP nominee Donald Trump will fundraise in Utah on Saturday. ... Read full Story
Adams County (Colo.) Judge Mark Warner vacated former paramedic Peter Cichuniec's five-year prison sentence in Elijah McClain's death and changed it to four years of probation over prosecutors' objections. ... Read full Story
DirecTV resumed channels from Disney, including ESPN and ABC, after the two sides agreed to a new deal less than two weeks after service was halted to the satellite TV provider. ... Read full Story
President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reached common ground at a White House meeting, but the two did not reach a decision on allowing Ukraine to launch long-range weapons into Russian territory. ... Read full Story
The remains of missing 3-year-old Elijah Vue were found on private property in Two Rivers, Wisc., and identified as the missing boy's, local police announced Friday. ... Read full Story
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, the reputed co-founder of the feared Mexican Sinaloa cartel, has been arraigned on 17 drug trafficking, firearms and related charges in New York, federal authorities said Friday. ... Read full Story
President Joe Biden touted the "historic results" his administration has delivered for minority communities Friday during a "Black Excellence Brunch" held on the South Lawn of the White House. ... Read full Story
Florida health officials are raising alarms about the safety of the newest versions of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, advising against their use despite endorsements from federal health agencies and other medical experts. ... Read full Story
A man who allegedly attacked flight attendants and threatened to kill everybody on the plane in Orange County, Calif., was arrested on charges of interference with flight crew members and attendants, according to the ... Read full Story
The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday an August 19 Tesla semi truck fire after a crash on I-80 in Placer County , California took about 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish. ... Read full Story
Federal authorities seized over 250 counterfeit Lululemon bags in Delaware, worth more than $10,000, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials confirmed Friday. ... Read full Story
Pop megastar Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of driving while impaired and agreed to pay a fine during a New York court appearance Friday, resolving his June arrest for drunken driving. ... Read full Story
"Like clouds, the shapes of our galaxy’s glittery nebulae are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. They can look like all sorts of animals: tarantulas, crabs, a running chicken, and now, a cosmic koi swimming through space." — Laura Baisas, PopSci.com, 13 June 2024
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The history of nebula belongs not to the mists of time but to the mists of Latin: in that language nebula means "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula was chiefly a medical term that could refer either to a cloudy formation in urine or to a cloudy speck or film on the eye. Nebula 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, and it is considerably older, being first used as a synonym of cloudy or foggy as early as the 1300s. Like nebula, this adjective was not used in an astronomical sense until centuries later.