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OCR: CELESTIAL OBJECT .............................................. A CELESTIAL OBJECT is any object, regardless of its size, that lies outside the Earth's atmosphere. The word celestial means "of the heavens" and is used to describe objects as small as interstellar dust particles and as large as galaxy clusters.