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satellitenounA man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
asteroidsa space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc.
orbsnounA spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
planetarynounA planetary nebula.
starnounAny small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
starsnoun(with "the") Outer space.
worldsnounA surname.
globesnounThe planet Earth.
spheresThe Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellite are a series of miniaturized satellites developed by MIT's Space Systems Laboratory for NASA and US Military, to be used as a low-risk, extensible test bed for the development of metrology, formation flight, rendezvous, docking and autonomy algorithms that are critical for future space missions that use distributed spacecraft architecture, such as Terrestrial Planet Finder and Orbital Express.
celestial bodiesa 2010 novel by Omani author Jokha Alharthi.
heavenly bodies
wanderersnoun(soccer) someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
wandering starsan anthology of Jewish fantasy and science fiction, edited by American writer Jack Dann, originally published by Harper & Row in 1974.
exoplanetsnoun(astronomy, planetology) A planet which exists outside Earth's solar system.
planetoidsnoun(astronomy) Any planetary body, including classical planets and moons: a planetary-mass object
dwarf planets(astronomy) A planetary (world-like) body of the Solar system, that directly orbits the Sun like the classical planets but does not gravitationally dominate other bodies in the region of its orbit.
minor planets(astronomy) An astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is not a planet or a comet.
terrestrial planetsAny planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is "Earth-like" in the sense that it is composed primarily of metals and rock, in contrast to a planet which is a gas giant.
gas giants(astronomy) A large planet composed mostly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, along with methane and ammonia; possibly with a solid core.
outer planets(astronomy) Any planet of the Solar System whose orbit is located beyond the asteroid belt, i.e., any of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune.

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