celestial sphere

See also: Celestial Sphere

English

Noun

celestial sphere (plural celestial spheres)

1. (astronomy) The apparent outer limit of space; an abstract sphere of infinite radius which serves as the imaginary backdrop for celestial objects, and of which the visible sky is one hemisphere.
2. One of the nested concentric transparent spheres around the Earth in which celestial bodies such as stars and planets were said to be embedded in ancient and medieval Western cosmology, and whose rotation was said to produce the motion of such bodies.

Synonyms

• empyrean
• firmament
• heavens
• vault of heaven
• welkin

Translations

abstract sphere of infinite radius

• Arabic: قُبَّة سَمَاوِيَّةٍ f (qubba(t) samāwiyyatin)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܓܝܓܠܐ (gigglā)

• Armenian: երկնոլորտ (hy) (erknolort)
• Basque: zeru-esfera
• Belarusian: нябесная сфера f (njabjesnaja sfjera)
• Bengali: খ-গোলক (kho-gōlok)
• Bulgarian: небесна сфера f (nebesna sfera)
• Catalan: esfera celeste f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天球 (zh) (tiānqiú)

• Czech: nebeská sféra f
• Danish: himmelkugle c
• Dutch: hemelbol (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉielosfero
• Estonian: taevasfäär
• Finnish: taivaanpallo (fi)
• French: sphère céleste (fr) f
• Galician: esfera celeste (gl) f
• Georgian: ცის სფერო (cis spero)
• German: Himmelskugel (de) f
• Greek: ουράνια σφαίρα f (ouránia sfaíra)
• Hebrew: כיפת השמים m (kipet ha-shemayim)
• Hindi: खगोलीय गोला (khagolīya golā)
• Hungarian: éggömb (hu)
• Ido: cielala sfero
• Indonesian: bola langit
• Irish: sféar neamhaí f
• Italian: sfera celeste f
• Japanese: 天球 (ja) (tenkyū)
• Kannada: ಖಗೋಳ (kn) (khagōḷa)
• Kazakh: аспан меридианы (aspan meridiany)
• Korean: 천구 (ko) (cheon'gu)
• Latvian: debess sfēra f
• Lithuanian: dangaus sfera f
• Luxembourgish: Himmelskugel
• Macedonian: небесна сфера f (nebesna sfera)
• Malay: sfera cakerawala
• Malayalam: ഖഗോളം (ml) (khagōḷaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: himmelhvelving (no) m

  Nynorsk: himmelkvelvinga f

• Persian: کره سپهری (koreye-sepehri), گوی سپهری (guye-sepehri)
• Polish: sfera niebieska f
• Portuguese: esfera celeste f
• Romanian: sferă cerească f
• Russian: небе́сная сфе́ра (ru) f (nebésnaja sféra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: небеска сфера f

  Latin: nebeska sfera f

• Slovak: nebeská sféra f
• Slovene: nebesna krogla
• Spanish: esfera celeste f
• Swedish: himmelssfär (sv) c, himlavalv (sv) n
• Tagalog: panlangit na timbulog
• Tamil: வானக்கோளம் (vāṉakkōḷam)
• Thai: ทรงกลมฟ้า (song-glom-fáa)
• Turkish: gökküre (tr)
• Ukrainian: небесна сфера f (nebesna sfera)
• Vietnamese: thiên cầu (vi)