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How to use celestial in a sentence

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It's easy enough to gauge an asteroid's longitude and latitude, but figuring out its current celestial position is tricky.
He carried on his celestial observations alone from a tower situated on the protective wall of the cathedral.
In the early 1960s a new class of celestial objects called quasars was identified.
Radio astronomers found pulsars, quasars, and massive molecular clouds dotting the celestial landscape.
Out beyond the galaxies, there are celestial objects called quasars, whose light has traveled at least 10 billion years to get here.
I saw sequoias as tall and straight as skyscrapers, celestial waterfalls and a wilderness stretching to unseen horizons.
They aligned their buildings with celestial movements, marking where the sun rose at the summer and winter solstices.
Far from being a mere passenger, Hattie kept the ship's weather logs, learned celestial navigation and even handled the vessel on some occasions.
It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds.
The Sakya tradition is closely bound up with the Khon ancestral lineage, which derived from celestial beings.
The figures seem to fly like angels through a celestial space, painted on a great altarpiece.
Chapter 4 deals with the process of creating ringed planets, star fields, and other celestial bodies.
Like the linking verb in a sentence, it is meant to connect the microcosm of the original film with the celestial stratosphere of the finale.
The ability to witness the pastimes between the demigods and the celestial girls called apsaras.
They are apsaras, celestial beings who live in the sky, while our dull, ant-like forms struggle below.
The clock is a tower topped by an armillary sphere and celestial globe of mechanical and hydraulic engineering, about thirty-five feet high.
You then have the astro-archaeology theory which avers that the rows were aligned to certain celestial bodies.
Angles are the most common type of numbers that astronavigators and celestial navigators calculate.
The celestial globe is an astronomical instrument used to measure the stars and the nature of the universe.
I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
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Up to the present, celestial mechanics has attacked only the solar system or certain systems of double stars.
If he ceased to make striking discoveries in celestial mechanics, it was rather their subject-matter than his powers that failed.
The celestial equator is a great circle of the sky distant 90 from the poles.
It seemed their aim to give every branch of physics the same precision as celestial mechanics.
The line of intersection will be a great circle of the celestial sphere, called the celestial equator.
I do know the general theory of the motions, and I studied some celestial mechanics.
In another Indian tale, five Apsaras, or celestial dancers, are conveyed in an enchanted car to a pool in the forest.
It was only the northern half of the celestial sphere which had been fully explored.
Its plane is inclined about 63 to the celestial equator and its poles lie in the constellations of Coma Berenicis and Cetus.
The theories of the motion of these bodies form one of the more interesting problems of celestial mechanics.
She knew almost as much about altruism as a dog does about the celestial sciences.
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the azimuth circle of a celestial object and the magnetic meridian.
The sign of Taurus is represented by the slaying of the celestial bull, ALU, by Gilgamesh.
When the sun is south of the celestial equator its apparent daily path is the same as it would be for a star so situated.
Fight all influences to bedeck it with beds of flowers in forms of stars and moons and other celestial and terrestrial designs.
The Mahometans assert that the caaba was lowered directly from the celestial paradise exactly at the centre of the earth.
Dionysius the Areopagite indeed is not more exact in his calendar of the celestial hierarchy.
As who should say, I devote him to the celestial Powers as an immortal artist!
We may remark that the main part of the zodiacal light shifts to the south side of the celestial equator as we cross the line.
The little citizen, not to be outdone, declared her to be a celestial witness.
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