Celestial Explained
Celestial may refer to:
Science
- Objects or events seen in the sky and the following astronomical terms:
- Astronomical object, a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe
- Celestia, a 3D astronomy program that allows users to travel through the universe, also known as a celestial body or object
- Celestial coordinate system, a system for mapping positions on the celestial sphere
- Celestial mechanics, the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects
- Celestial navigation, a position-fixing technique that helps sailors cross the oceans
- Celestial pole, the two points in the sky, north and south, where the projection of a planet's axis of rotation intersects its celestial sphere
- Celestial sphere, an imaginary sphere concentric with the Earthall objects in the sky can be thought of as projected upon the celestial sphere
- Celestial spheres, fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Aristotle, and others
Music
Television
Animal kingdom
- Celestial Eye, a breed of goldfish related to the Telescope eye
- Celestial Parrotlet (Forpus coelestis), also known as Pacific Parrotlet and Lesson's Parrotlet
Games and comics
- August Celestials, the four wild gods in
- Celestial (comics), a race of powerful alien beings in Marvel Comics
- Celestials (Dungeons & Dragons), a category of angel-like beings in the Dungeons & Dragons game
- Celestial Brush, in the video game Ōkami
- Celestials, a class consisting of 12 monsters from the game My Singing Monsters
Spirituality and religion
- Body of light, also referred to as the celestial body, a "quasi material" aspect of the human body, neither solely physical nor spiritual
- Celestial Church of Christ, an African-initiated church founded 1947 in Benin
- Related to Heaven
- Celestial kingdom, the highest of three heavens or heavenly kingdoms in Mormon theology
Other uses
See also