post-nebular

Updated: July 17, 2026

Thus the dark star, which is the last term of one series of cosmic changes, becomes the first term of another series at once a post-nebular and a pre-nebular condition; and the nebular hypothesis, thus amplified, ceases to be a mere linear scale, and is rounded out to connote an unending series of cosmic cycles, more nearly satisfying the imagination.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 3