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What is passage of a celestial body across the disc of a larger one?
The apparent passage of one celestial body across the disc of another one for an observer is called a transit. If the transiting body hides a significant portion of the one behind, it is called an occultation or eclipse.
Does hale bopp have orbiting moons?
Technically yes, it is.It fills the criterion of being a celestial body that orbits another celestial body but ,you know, the term is usually reserved for things with less idiosyncratic orbits.
IS a supernova a celestial body?
No, a supernova is an explosion of a star. What left of a supernova are celestial bodies.
What is a tailed celestial body called?
A Comet
What is reflection of a celestial body called?
albedo
Why solar and lunar eclipses occur?
An eclipse is when one celestial body blocks another from sight: the moon gets in between the Earth and the Sun.
What is large celestial body that is composed of gas and emits light?
A large celestial body that is composed of gas and emits light is called a star.
What is a small celestial body that orbits another celestial body other than the sun?
satellite
Which chapter in NightWatch by the editor of SkyNews talks about the obscuring of light from one celestial body by the passage of another?
chapter 9
What is a large celestial body that is composed of gas and emits light-?
A large celestial body that is composed of gas and emits light is called a star.
What is a large celestial body that is composed of gas in emits light?
Sun
What is a large celestial body that is composed of gas emits light?
Sun
A measure of the brightness of a star of another celestial body?
Magnitude
Waht is ecilpse?
The definition for the word eclipse is "an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination."
What celestial body is the producer of most your light?
The Sun is the celestial body producing most of the light on Earth. If we had the ability to capture all the light striking Earth, every human on the planet would have enough power to operate a 4,000 kW lamp.
What is a large celestial body that is composed oh gas and emits light?
A star.
What is a sattellite?
An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body.
