cuerpo celeste

the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky

a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color

the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun

a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants

a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets

the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it

a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun

the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system

a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites

the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'

any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun

(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 direction

a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts

any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion

guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy

any natural satellite of a planet

a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky

a system of three or more stars associated by gravity

a star that has collapsed under its own gravity; it is composed of neutrons

a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process

any star around which a planetary system revolves

a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process