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
The mass of an enormous celestial object, such as a cluster of galaxies, can bend spacetime enough to change the path light follows.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2022
If we look at the same unmoving celestial object six months apart, we should be able to measure very great distances.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
