Celestial

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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 Earth – all 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

  • Celestial (Circle X album), the final full-length studio album by Circle X released in 1994
  • Celestial (Isis album), the first full-length album by Isis released in 2000
  • Celestial (RBD album), the third Spanish studio album by Mexican Latin pop group RBD
    • "Celestial" (RBD song), a song from the above album
    • Celestial (Versão Brasil), the Portuguese version of the album
  • "Celestial" (Ed Sheeran song), a 2022 song by Ed Sheeran
  • Celestial Recordings, a record label from 1998 to 2002
  • Celestiial, a one-man funeral doom metal band from Minnesota
  • "Celestial", a song by P.O.D. from Satellite
  • "The Celestials" (song), the first single off the 2012 Smashing Pumpkins album Oceania
  • Celestial (Rob Halford album), a studio album by Rob Halford

Television

  • Celestial Digimon, used in Digimon Frontier, a TV series first broadcast in 2002
  • Celestial Movies, a 24-hour satellite broadcast movie channel
  • Celestial Maidens (Tennyo), are known in the 2005 miniseries Ceres, Celestial Legend, with the title character being one such divine/angelic being who has been reborn as sixteen-year-old Mikage Aya

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 World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
  • 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

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