Meridian The imaginary north-south line that passes directly overhead through the zenith.

Celestial object names. This video has been designed to explain the rules of capitalizing names of planets celestial objects names of gods specific deities sacred books regions rivers lakes mountains and oceans. Celestial objects often have official names that are a combination of letters and numbers corresponding to certain characteristics. Discover the celestial objects that fill our universe.

With binoculars or telescopes many more come to light. The higher the magnitude the fainter the object. Various nebulae are also waiting to be seen.

Decide whether each characteristic or name describes an outer planet an inner planet a moon an asteroid a meteor or a comet. Dysnomia is Eris only known moon and is about 8 times smaller. These celestial objects include planets moons asteroids comets nebulae stars star clusters galaxies plusars quasars black holes and dark matter.

A number denoting the brightness of a star or other celestial object. The tenth planet a large ice object formerly known as 2003 UB313 and slightly larger than Pluto. For example a 1st-magnitude star is 100 times brighter than a 6th-magnitude star.

Celestial objects are any astronomical object that are located outside of Earths atmosphere that can vary in size shape etc. For instance Supernova 1987A is a. Characteristics and names of celestial objects in the box below.

The Andromeda galaxy is the farthest object visible from earth to the naked eye. The official designation is 136199 Eris I Dysnomia. Celestial-object meaning Filters 0 astronomy astrology A natural object which is located outside of Earth s atmosphere such as the Moon the Sun an asteroid planet or star.