the particular appearance presented by the moon or a planet at a given time
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor
a natural body that revolves around a planet such as a moon
the polestar or North Star, a star of the second magnitude close to the north pole of the heavens, in the constellation Ursa Minor
the magnitude or brightness of a star as it appears to an observer on the earth