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English
Pronunciation
Noun
celestial body (plural celestial bodies)
- (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.
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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)
- 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)
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Further reading
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