How to Use celestial body in a Sentence

celestial body

noun
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  • Now, Lucy has a list of other small celestial bodies to visit.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s the deal, star gazers: As your cozy sweaters come out — along with the Chelsea boots and fall nail colors — the celestial bodies are making major moves.
    — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The crew will not land on the moon but will swing around the celestial body, testing the performance of the Orion spacecraft, before returning to Earth.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The song undulates with a weighty riff as Wilson sings about celestial bodies.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The sun is the center of the Universe, the very celestial body that every other planet, asteroid, and piece of space matter orbits around.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The bob-and-weave drum programming counters pretty synth melodies that float like celestial bodies.
    — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the smallest of these stars has a mass around three times that of Jupiter, which challenges current theories about how these types of celestial bodies are formed.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Of all the celestial bodies orbiting the sun, Enceladus shines brightest.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • The nearest celestial body to Earth and the only one humans have literally set foot on, the moon has a tremendous influence on our world.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Our blingy celestial body’s age has been estimated to be about 4.2 billion years.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 14 June 2023
  • Each of the 10 main celestial bodies in the solar system is also found in your chart, and each one represents a different part of yourself.
    — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
  • At first, it was covered in a global ocean of magma, but within about 100 million years, the new celestial body cooled down and mostly crystallized.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In this alternate reality, one of these celestial bodies is about the size and brightness of our present-day moon, but the second appears four times bigger and brighter.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • These celestial bodies are all thought to have liquid water beneath their icy surfaces.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • Russia hasn't had a successful mission to another celestial body since the Soviet era in the 1980s.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2023
  • At night, the dark sky above the bay shines with thousands of celestial bodies, and the Big Dipper, also known as the Great Bear constellation, loiters in the northern sky, right above the majestic cathedral.
    — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The set of knobs below the screen controlled the illumination of the celestial bodies through variable resistance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The celestial body was similar in appearance to the one that fell in Chelyabinsk, but this time the only witnesses were a few Evenki herders and hunters, indigenous people of the region.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
  • The shortest month of every year has a few solid opportunities for looking up at the night sky and catching unique celestial bodies.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But to become the world’s only private owner of an object on a foreign celestial body—that has an innately high story value.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 23 July 2023
  • Amid tumult, there’s something comforting about the predictable, cyclical, and yet changeable, nature of the moon and other celestial bodies, said Kelley, who lives in the San Gabriel Valley.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Aspects: Aspects are the ways in which your planets and celestial bodies interact with one another.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The positions of celestial bodies constantly change due to their orbits.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In the beginning … Kohoutek, the astronomer who would soon lend the comet his name, discovered the celestial body while working at an observatory in Hamburg, Germany, in March 1973.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The particles closest to the gravitational source are pulled the hardest, those furthest away are pulled the weakest, and if the forces are strong enough, the entire celestial body (moon, planet, etc…) warps and changes shape constantly as a result.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
  • Astrologers for centuries have referred to the movement and positions of planets and other celestial bodies to inform readings and horoscopes.
    — Saam Niami, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Herman said this event presents a special opportunity to observe a celestial body.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Half a million local stingless bees churn out honey at the Bee Residence and the resort’s new telescope station is manned by an astronomer for viewing celestial bodies.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Astronomers called for Pluto and more than one hundred other celestial bodies to be granted planetary status.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Odysseus, a lunar lander created by a private American company, is in the moon’s orbit and is slated to land on the celestial body’s surface Thursday afternoon.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024

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