celestial

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Celestial may refer to:

Science

• Sky objects, bodies and the following astronomy terms:
  • Astronomical objects, see for detailed description of celestial bodies and objects
  • Celestia, a 3D astronomy program that allows users to travel through the universe
  • 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 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, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus 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" (song), a song from the above album
  • Celestial (Versão Brasil), the Portuguese version of the album
• Celestial Recordings, a record label from 1998–2002
• Celestiial, a one-man funeral doom metal band from Minnesota

Television

• Celestial digimon, used in Digimon Frontier, a TV series first broadcast in 2002
• Celestial Movies, a 24-hour satellite broadcast movie channel
• Celestial Navigation (The West Wing), 15th episode of the TV series The West Wing
• Celestial Being; a privately armed organization of the anime show Mobile Suit Gundam 00

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

• Celestial (comics), a race of powerful alien beings in Marvel Comics
• Celestials (Dungeons & Dragons), a race of angel-like beings in the Dungeons & Dragons game
• Various usages of "Celestial" in the mmorpg Dofus including monsters, attacks and items.
• Various usages of "Celestial" in the video game Ōkami, the most prominent is the Celestial Brush
• There is a celestial in Touhou, Known as Tenshi Hinanai. Celestials in Touhou are described to be former humans, and can be divided into 2 classes: those who gained immortality and ascended to heaven, and those who attained enlightenment and entered Nirvana.

Religion

• Celestial Kingdom, the highest of three heavens or heavenly kingdoms in Mormon theology
• Heaven
  • Supernatural beings that dwell in heaven such as divinities and angels

See also

• Celesta
• Celestia (disambiguation)
• Celestial (Chinese), a term used to describe Chinese emigrants to the United States, Canada and Australia during the 19th century
• Tianchao Daguo or "Celestial Kingdom", a term used to refer to the country of China
• Celestial Seasonings
• Hain Celestial Group
• Celestial Semiconductor

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