Celestial
Appearance
Celestial may refer to:
Science
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Celestials, 19th century term for people of the Celestial Empire (China)
See also
[edit]Search for "celestial" on Wikipedia.
- Celesta
- Celestia (disambiguation)
- Celestial Bodies, 2019 novel by Jokha Alharthi
- Celestial Empire, a 19th-century term for Chinese emigrants to the United States, Canada, and Australia
- Celestial Seasonings
- Celestial Semiconductor
- Hain Celestial Group
- Tianchao Daguo or "Celestial Kingdom", a term used to refer to the country of China
- All pages with titles beginning with Celestial
- All pages with titles containing Celestial