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
To this day, the sisters recall one particularly giant celestial object.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 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
Suppose, though, a much larger celestial object — say, the moon — were actually to crash into Earth.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
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
