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Answer for the clue "Heavenly body appearing not to move ", 10 letters:
fixed star

Word definitions for fixed star in dictionaries

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" Fixed Star " is the 13th single released by the J-pop singer Mami Kawada . It was scheduled to be released on February 20, 2013, one week after the release of her compilation album Mami Kawada BEST ~BIRTH~ . The track is used as is the ending theme song ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion

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n. (context star English) Any star that is so distant that its movement, relative to others, is not perceptible; in practice, any star except the sun

Usage examples of fixed star.

He was secure in his conviction that Tane would not have hung that fixed star where it was except for some high purpose, and he, Teroro, had divined that purpose.

So most nights I slept on the open ground, and even without my seeing crystal I could make out the fixed star Tlacpac hung high above the northern horizon toward which I would plod again at dawn.