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One might safely say that a turnip is neither luminous nor a planet - but given the astronomical context, it's a safe inference that the subject of interest would be celestial bodies. Some stellar remnants would qualify, one in particular being a black dwarf - which is basically a white dwarf that has cooled down through the brown dwarf phase to a point where it no longer emits radiation (per current calculations, the time taken for this to happen is very long indeed). Other candidates might be a neutron star, or a black hole - in both cases presuming luminosity excludes nearby effects such as highly energetic accretion disks or relativistic polar jets such as are found at active galactic nuclei or quasars (ironically, among the most luminous regions known). Other solar system objects which would qualify would include objects too small to be planets such as asteroids, or others that don't fit the planet definition (such as moons). Although most of these objects could reflect light, strictly speaking, they are not usually themselves luminous.

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