celestial body

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Noun

celestial body (plural celestial bodies)

1. (astronomy, astrology) A natural object which is located outside of Earth's atmosphere, such as a comet, an asteroid, the Moon, a planet, the Sun, or a star.

Synonyms

• celestial object
• heavenly body

Hyponyms

• asteroid
• black hole
• comet
• detached object
• galaxy
• KBO
• moon
• planemo
• planet
• planetary body
• planetary object
• quasar
• star
• trans-Neptunian object
• white hole

Translations

natural object beyond Earth's atmosphere

• Catalan: cos celeste m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天體 / 天体 (zh) (tiāntǐ), 星體 / 星体 (zh) (xīngtǐ), (spherical) 星球 (zh) (xīngqiú)

• Czech: nebeské těleso n
• Esperanto: ĉielkorpo, astro (eo)
• Estonian: taevakeha (et), taevakivi (rare)
• Finnish: taivaankappale (fi)
• French: corps céleste (fr) m, astre (fr) m
• Galician: corpo celeste m
• Georgian: ციური სხეული (ciuri sxeuli)
• German: Himmelskörper (de) m
• Greek: ουράνιο σώμα (el) (ouránio sóma)
• Hindi: खगोलीय वस्तु f (khagolīya vastu)
• Hungarian: égitest (hu)
• Ido: astro (io)
• Irish: rinn m, rinn neimhe m
• Italian: corpo celeste (it) m
• Japanese: 天体 (ja) (tentai)
• Korean: 천체(天體) (ko) (cheonche)
• Latin: corpus caeleste
• Malay: jasad cakerawala
• Maori: whānau mārama
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: himmellegeme (no) n

  Nynorsk: himmellekam (nn) m

• Persian: جرم آسمانی (jerm-e-asmani)
• Polish: ciało niebieskie (pl) n
• Portuguese: astro (pt) m, corpo celeste (pt) m
• Romanian: corp ceresc (ro) n, astru (ro) m or n
• Russian: небе́сное те́ло (ru) n (nebésnoje télo)
• Sanskrit: ज्योतिस् (sa) n pl (jyótis) (collective)
• Slovak: nebeské teleso n
• Spanish: cuerpo celeste (es) m, astro (es) m
• Swahili: kiolwa cha angani, gimba la angani
• Swedish: himlakropp (sv) c
• Tagalog: astro
• Turkish: gök cismi (tr)

Further reading

• celestial body on Wikipedia.Wikipedia