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单词 celestial body
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celestial body


Thesaurus
Noun1.celestial body - natural objects visible in the skycelestial body - natural objects visible in the sky heavenly bodynatural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by manminor planet, planetoid - any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sunmajor planet, planet - (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise directionplanet - any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a starplanetesimal - one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar systemprimary - (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around itquasar, quasi-stellar radio source - a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shiftssatellite - any celestial body orbiting around a planet or starstar - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interiorstar - any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at nightcosmos, macrocosm, universe, world, existence, creation - everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"winkle, twinkle, scintillate - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
Translations

celestial body


celestial body

[sə′les·chəl ′bäd·ē] (astronomy) Any aggregation of matter in space constituting a unit for astronomical study, as the sun, moon, a planet, comet, star, or nebula. Also known as heavenly body.

celestial body

A general term for all objects that can be observed in the sky beyond the atmospheric envelope of the earth: the sun, the moon, the planets and their satellites, meteors, comets, stars, nebulae, and external galaxies.

celestial body


  • noun

Synonyms for celestial body

noun natural objects visible in the sky

Synonyms

  • heavenly body

Related Words

  • natural object
  • minor planet
  • planetoid
  • major planet
  • planet
  • planetesimal
  • primary
  • quasar
  • quasi-stellar radio source
  • satellite
  • star
  • cosmos
  • macrocosm
  • universe
  • world
  • existence
  • creation
  • winkle
  • twinkle
  • scintillate
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