celestial body


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Noun1.celestial body - natural objects visible in the skycelestial body - natural objects visible in the sky  
heavenly body
natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man
minor planet, planetoid - any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun
major planet, planet - (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
planet - any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
planetesimal - one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system
primary - (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
quasar, quasi-stellar radio source - a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
satellite - any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
star - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
star - any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
cosmos, macrocosm, universe, world, existence, creation - everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
winkle, twinkle, scintillate - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
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And we were out of sight of land without a single celestial body to guide us!
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His slow-motion walk appears to suggest the 'astronaut' is taking cautious steps on a celestial body with gravity and surface composition previously not experienced by mankind.
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The Saturn Moon Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of the planet, is known simply as a celestial body that expands 310 miles in diameter and covered in ice.
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28 -- The Oxford English dictionary defines a planet as "A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star." The word is Greek in origin, and the root means "wanderer".
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The celestial body was nicknamed Ultima Thule -- meaning "beyond the known world."
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A message from the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) will be sent by the NASA New Horizons spacecraft as it flies -- by the frozen "Ultima Thule", a celestial body in the Kuiper Zone, at the edge of the solar system, 6.6 billion kilometers from Earth.
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The IAU defined a planet as a celestial body that orbits the sun, is round or nearly round and "clears the neighborhood" around its orbit.
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This celestial body is nature's compass, pointing directly at the polar north the rest becomes easy.
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The celestial body - named Oumuamua - was scanned for radio signals after its shape led researchers to consider the possibility it could be an alien starship.
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The mysterious celestial body is presumed to be 10 times the mass of the Earth and most likely located 20 times away from the Sun than Neptune, the report said.
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