celestial body

Example Sentences

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The astronauts have already started seeing features of the celestial body never before viewed with a naked human eye.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

The crew of Apollo 8 would be the first to travel beyond low Earth orbit and enter the gravitational pull of another celestial body.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

It’s how Uchis has excelled in what so many pop artists struggle with: She remains the main celestial body for the sounds she experiments with to orbit, and not the other way around.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Set largely in a rambling house on a single momentous day, it focuses on a serious-eyed girl, Sol, who serves as the story’s luminous celestial body.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

We are, it appears, ready to begin getting in touch with Ceti, and with any other interested celestial body in more remote places, out to the edge.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas