celestial
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I’m flying to Spain from New York to watch an infrequent celestial shadow that will last less than two minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But parts of the rocket are shed in space and remain there, stuck in orbit unless they eventually collide with another celestial body.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Buck Moon is just one of a number of celestial sights to look for this summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The concept of the cloud, he says, is merely a trick of terminology that makes us think there is something celestial about data storage: “Many of us really thought that information had become airborne.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing celestial
Celestial Words To Mark The Winter Solstice
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