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celestial body

n. (context astronomy astrology English) A natural object which is located outside of Earth's atmosphere, such as the Moon, the Sun, an asteroid, planet, or star.

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celestial body

n. natural objects visible in the sky [syn: heavenly body]

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Celestial Body

Celestial Body (Nebo, sateliti) is a Croatian film directed by Lukas Nola. It was released in 2001.

Usage examples of "celestial body".

The grey blue, cloud flocked celestial body that revolved beneath the ship was Rofus.

The Sumerians, then, were right to depict the Moon as a celestial body in its own right.

In its entire history mankind has managed to launch one dozen people to another celestial body.

Another had the face of the sun itself, finely sculpted, with a series of nozzles around its circumference, so that the celestial body emitted not rays but coolness.

It would get even closer to the sun before it made its perihelion passage - far more swiftly than any natural celestial body - and headed out towards Lucifer.

A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.

Naturally the climatic conditions on this celestial body were probably extremely bad.

The first of these is governed directly and soley by God, the second by an Angel, and the third by a celestial body.

We cannot be surprised, that they should have found in the Gospel the orthodox mystery of the Trinity: but, instead of confessing the human nature and substantial sufferings of Christ, they amused their fancy with a celestial body that passed through the virgin like water through a pipe.