How to Use celestial body in a Sentence

celestial body

noun
  • Asteroids are small celestial bodies that add flavour to larger planets.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • More than two millennia ago, a device known as the Antikythera mechanism was used to predict the movements of celestial bodies using a complex system of gears.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
  • 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 sandy planets even both have twin celestial bodies viewable from the surface – two suns on Tatooine and two moons on Arrakis.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • 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
  • And exactly how clear should the celestial body’s orbit be of debris?
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • 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
  • Webb has also shed new light on nearby celestial bodies, such as the Trappist-1 planetary system just 41 light-years away.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • Vedic astrology is the study and belief that the celestial bodies, stars and planets influence our lives.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • These celestial bodies are all thought to have liquid water beneath their icy surfaces.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • In a system of two celestial bodies, such a prediction can readily be made.
    Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • No other celestial body in the solar system seems to present similar pockmarks.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 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
  • This is the problem of trying to predict the motion of three celestial bodies based on their initial positions and velocities.
    Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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

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