celestial object

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Among these is the famous zeta ring, a very faint and dusty celestial object first discovered by the Voyager 2 satellite in 1986.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2023

There is a fundamental upper bound to the luminosity of any celestial object beyond which “the radiation observed to be emitted … would blow up the star,” Arthur Eddington wrote in an influential 1926 paper.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023

Last year, its Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft deliberately crashed into a rock 7 million miles away to see whether humans could change the trajectory of a celestial object.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

As his ashes were lowered into the ground, his voice was beamed from Earth toward the nearest known black hole, a kind of celestial object Hawking spent much of his life studying.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2018

Regiomontanus’s procedure for measuring parallax ideally involved comparing the apparent position of a celestial object soon after dark with its apparent position not long before dawn, thus maximizing the parallax to be measured.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton