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

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

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

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