I possess five pointed arms without muscles or bone, sharing my celestial name with the night sky alone, yet I prefer sunlit ocean tide pools over outer space. What am I?
Starfish
Wordplay on 'star' (heavenly body) combined with 'fish' to describe the ocean creature.
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