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Aster can refer to one of the following:
- Aster (genus), a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
- Callistephus
Callistephus is a genus of flowering plants, in the Asteraceae ; the genus includes only one species, C. chinensis, the China Aster....
, another genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly called Aster or Chinese Aster
- Aster Data Systems
Aster Data Systems is a database software company headquartered in San Carlos, California. Aster nCluster, the software product developed by the company, is a massive parallel processing analytic database management system that runs on a cluster of commodity servers...
, an analytics database start up in Silicon Valley
- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
ASTER is one of five remote sensory devices on board the Terra satellite launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999...
(ASTER) on board the Terra satellite
- Aster (auto parts company)
Aster was a French manufacturer of automobile parts; from 1900 to 1910 the company produced chassis, though it is not known if they built complete cars.The firm whose full name was Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster from St...
, a French auto parts manufacturer between 1900 and 1910
- Aster (automobile)
The Aster was an English automobile manufactured from 1922 to 1930. The companies car roots can be traced to 1899 when Begbie Manufacturing of Wembley, in north London became British licensees of the French Aster company making mainly stationary engines...
, a British automobile manufactured between 1922 and 1930
- Aster CT-80
The Aster CT-80, an early home/personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP , was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists. Later it was sold ready to use. It consisted of several Eurocard PCB's and a backplane. It was the first commercially available Dutch personal/home...
, an early Dutch eight-bit home computer
- MBDA Aster
Aster is a family of surface-to-air missiles manufactured by Eurosam, a European consortium consisting of MBDA France, MBDA Italy and the Thales Group .-Overview:The Aster family was developed to perform three distinct missions:...
surface-to-air missile
- Aster (cell biology)
An aster is a cellular structure shaped like a star, formed around each centrosome during mitosis in an animal cell. Astral rays, composed of microtubules, radiate from the centrosphere and appear as a cloud. During mitosis, two asters migrate to opposite sides of the nucleus in prepration of...
, a star-shaped structure with fibers surrounding the centrosome, formed in the cytoplasm of a cell during mitosis
- Code Aster
Code_Aster is an Open Source software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics originally developed as an in-house application by the French company EDF...
, a software package for finite elements analysis.