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    An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists...
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    type of astronomical object. List of Solar System objects List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System List of Solar System objects most distant...
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    Various unknown astronomical objects have been hypothesized throughout recorded history. For example, in the 5th century BCE, the philosopher Philolaus...
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    This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. For...
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    astronomical object is a meteorological optical phenomenon, in which light rays are bent to produce distorted or multiple images of an astronomical object...
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    The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas...
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    A deep-sky object (DSO) is any astronomical object that is not an individual star or Solar System object (such as Sun, Moon, planet, comet, etc.). The...
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    Sun. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) initially considered Sedna to be a member of the scattered disc, a group of objects sent into high-eccentricity...
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    An interstellar object is an astronomical object (such as an asteroid, a comet, or a rogue planet, but not a star or stellar remnant) in interstellar space...
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    Retrieved 3 December 2019. A.A. Hoag (1950). "A peculiar object in Serpens". Astronomical Journal. 55: 170. Bibcode:1950AJ.....55Q.170H. doi:10.1086/106427...
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