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
The tilt of the axis on which any celestial object spins tends to be stable.
From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 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
Some of these asteroids briefly become the closest celestial object to us.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
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
