Sightings of the celestial body were reported on Twitter in areas such as Cornwall, Hampshire, Lancashire, south Wales and Worcestershire.

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No celestial body has the same gravitational pull everywhere on its surface.

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In these pages, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud remind us that, even as our gaze turns heavenwards, our feet remain firmly planted on a celestial body.

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After orbiting the ringed planet for nine years, NASA's Cassini probe has managed to snag video of a super storm on the celestial body's north pole.

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No-one knew there was water on that dusty, celestial body.

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Fusa Miyake discovered Carbon-14 and Beryllium-10 traces in tree rings from the era, which point to a gamma ray burst from a celestial body other than the Sun.

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They later realized that the morning and evening stars were the same celestial body, which they called Aphrodite, the goddess of love, thus perpetuating the cult of Babylonian Ishtar.

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