A nebula is gas, dust, and other things that form and form some sort of clould like thing. It also looks cool because of the colors it produces. I'm sure you could do a web search to find more about it, I don't take astronomy hahaha
You don't need to worry about the 10 year bit with this question. Just grab a calculator and divide 100/2, then the answer to that (50) by 2 etc and keep dividing by 2 until you get down to 6.25.
The answer ends up being 4 half lives :)
If you don't understand what a half life is please let me know :)
So he has 7 sheepleft if i did it correctly
15-8=7