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
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
The mass of an enormous celestial object, such as a cluster of galaxies, can bend spacetime enough to change the path light follows.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2022
As his ashes were lowered into the ground, his voice was beamed from Earth toward the nearest known black hole, a kind of celestial object Hawking spent much of his life studying.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2018
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
