How to Use heavenly body in a Sentence

heavenly body

noun
  • Dirt or dust on any heavenly body is commonly referred to as regolith.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Bulging eyes, head swiveling from side to side, a tiny ET, a minute being from a heavenly body.
    Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The positions of the heavenly bodies could be modeled exquisitely using the geocentric model, in a way that the heliocentric model could not reproduce.
    Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Both heavenly bodies will be visible across much of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly under clear skies away from heavy light pollution.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • Without that key step, you can’t be classified as a true star; the presence of those fusion reactions, where hydrogen gets fused into helium, separates stars from all other heavenly bodies.
    Big Think, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The stars and other heavenly bodies are all stationary, while the Earth rotates about its axis, with a rotational period of 360° every 24 hours.
    Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The illuminated umbrella props will be illustrated with constellations, planets and other heavenly bodies.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • If light was an electromagnetic wave, and all waves required a medium to travel through (which was our understanding at the time), then — as all the heavenly bodies traveled through the medium of space — surely that medium itself, the aether, was the medium that light traveled through.
    Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • There are swooping close encounters with heavenly bodies, Lego blocks in antigravity mode and swarms of Separators, a sort of astro-anthropomorphic version of the tool that pries apart Lego bricks in real life.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That central heavenly body is young actor Juan Daniel García Treviño, who, in only a few years, has established himself as one of the most captivating faces in Mexican cinema today.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Inspired by a 19th-century clock that Baumgartner’s watchmaker father, Gérard, restored, the Spacemeter is a miniature astronomical complication and tracks the distances traveled by several heavenly bodies.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2025

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