‘Technically, a conjunction describes a precise alignment of heavenly bodies that happen to have the same celestial longitude - that is, they appear to line up in the sky, one directly above the other.’. 
‘Astronomers have sighted a tenth heavenly body orbiting the Earth.’.‘The Chinese calendar follows a zodiac originated from the movement of heavenly bodies such as constellations and planets, with each year being designated a characteristic animal.’.‘The moon and other heavenly bodies also emit light by borrowing from the sun.’.‘That dot also contained the matter that later came to be the sun, the earth and the moon - the heavenly bodies that tell us about the passing of time.’.‘He now owns 54 heavenly bodies - including the Sun - and has established a Lunar Embassy in the USA, of which he claims to be the ambassador.’.‘The moon and the sun were the only heavenly bodies they knew about.’.
‘Astronomers now know, of course, that the morning star and the evening star are one and the same heavenly body, namely, the planet Venus.’. ‘We were able to use mass readings to mark the positions of the planets and other local heavenly bodies.’. ‘I looked to all sides and saw the same dark immenseness sprinkled with flickering stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies.’. ‘Topping the four-storied hall would be a dome onto which the newly developed Zeiss projector could beam the images of 4,500 fixed stars and various heavenly bodies.’. ‘In this application, a laser stationed on a satellite can orbit Earth (or other heavenly bodies such as the Moon or Mars) and direct a sequence of short optical pulses onto the surface.’.
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