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
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
Suppose, though, a much larger celestial object — say, the moon — were actually to crash into Earth.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
Some of these asteroids briefly become the closest celestial object to us.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
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
