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A star
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...

is a luminous cosmic body.

Star or stars may also refer to:

Russia

  • Star, Bryansk Oblast
    Star, Bryansk Oblast
    Star is an urban locality in Dyatkovsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population: It was established in 1785 and was granted urban-type settlement status in 1927.-External links:*Great Soviet Encyclopedia....

    , an urban-type settlement
  • Star, Novgorod Oblast
    Star, Novgorod Oblast
    Star is a rural locality in Maryovsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia....

    , a rural locality (village)

United Kingdom

  • Star, Anglesey, Wales
  • Star, Fife
    Star, Fife
    Star is a small village in Fife, Scotland.The name star derives from the old Norse word - starr- for the type of grass that grows on boggy land. The area of land around the village has been and continues to be boggy with Star Moss, a raised bog to the north west of the village draining out to...

    , Scotland
  • Star, Pembrokeshire
    Star, Pembrokeshire
    Star is a hamlet in the north of the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire.It is located south of Bwlch y Groes in the valley of the Afon Cneifa where the river is bridged.- External links :...

    , Wales
  • Star, Somerset, England

United States

  • Star, Idaho
    Star, Idaho
    Star is a city in northwestern Ada County, Idaho, United States. The population was 1,795 at the 2000 census. It was named in the 19th century by travelers on their way to Middleton and Boise who used the star on the school house to find east and west. The name stuck and it became Star, Idaho...

  • Star, Michigan
  • Star, Mississippi
    Star, Mississippi
    Star, Mississippi, is a small unincorporated community in Rankin County, southeast of Jackson in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Its ZIP code is 39167, area code is 601 and local exchange is 845. The elevation is 423 feet. Star appears on the Star U.S. Geological Survey Map...

  • Star, North Carolina
    Star, North Carolina
    Star is a town in Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 807 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Star is known as the geographic center of North Carolina as measured via satellite, according to the Army Corps of Engineers...

  • Star, Texas
    Star, Texas
    Star is an unincorporated community in Mills County in Central Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 85 in 2000.-Geography:Star is located at . It is situated at the junction of U.S...


Bands

  • Stars (Australian band)
    Stars (Australian band)
    -Other appearances:-Members:*Glyn Dowding – drums *Malcolm Eastick – guitar, vocals *Mick Pealing – vocals *Graham Thompson – bass guitar *Andrew Durant – guitar...

    , from the 1970s
  • Stars (Canadian band), an indie rock group formed in 2000
  • Stars (British band), a 1972 supergroup
  • The Stars
    The Stars
    The Stars is a Japanese psychedelic rock band. It consists of ex-members of the band White Heaven including Michio Kurihara on guitar and You Ishihara on vocals....

    , a Japanese psychedelic rock group

Albums

  • Star (702 album), 2003
  • Star (Belly album)
  • Stars (Cher album)
    Stars (Cher album)
    -Personnel:*Cher - lead vocals*Jimmy Webb - record producer, musical arranger, conducted*John Haeny - recorded and mixed*Gary Webb - arrangement assistance*Bill King - photography cover*Norman Seeff - photography back*Jesse Ed Davis - electric guitar...

    , 1975
  • Stars (Makai album)
    Stars (Makai album)
    Stars is an album by Makai that was released by BMG Japan 24 September 2008. It includes several collaborations between Makai and popular artists like YUCHUN from Tohoshinki, LISA, BENI, Stepahnie from Tenjochiki, Thelma Aoyama and more.- Track listing :...

    , 2008
  • Stars (Simply Red album), 1991
  • Star (Mika Nakashima album)
    Star (Mika Nakashima album)
    Star is Mika Nakashima's sixth studio album and eleventh overall release; it was released on October 27, 2010. Peaking at #3 upon its release, the album sold only 92,962 copies in its first week. Its sales total later rose to 155,457 copies, 4 weeks after its release. However, this sales figure was...

  • Star (Murk album)
    Star (Murk album)
    Star is the second album by Murk, also known as Funky Green Dogs. It was released in early 1999 on the label TWISTED America/MCA Records. With the introduction of new vocalist, Tamara Wallace, she brings new life and charisma to Murk's songs, making it much more satisfying LP overall...

  • Stars: The Best of 1992–2002
    Stars: The Best of 1992–2002
    The limited edition version of this CD includes five live tracks recorded in Stockholm:- Awards :In 2002, they won an award in Taiwan for best selling international band with the album Stars: The Best of 1992-2002.-DVD:...

    , by The Cranberries
  • Star/Boom Boom
    Star/Boom Boom
    Star/Boom Boom is the second music album of famous brother and sister duo Nazia Hassan & Zohaib Hassan released in 1982. A movie was made on the music in Bollywood called Star....

    , the soundtrack album to the 1982 film Star, by Biddu, Nazia Hassan, and Zohaib Hassan

Songs

  • "Star" (Bryan Adams song)
    Star (Bryan Adams song)
    -UK 4 Track CD Single:Tracks 2, 3 & 4 - Recorded Live At Wembley 1996-Charts:* #13 * #76...

    , 1996
  • "Star" (Kevin Ayers song)
    Star (Kevin Ayers song)
    "Star" was the second Kevin Ayers single issued to promote his 1976 album, Yes We Have No Mañanas . Both songs were featured on the LP...

    , 1976
  • "Star" (David Bowie song)
    Star (David Bowie song)
    "Star" is a song written by David Bowie in 1972 for the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.-Live versions:...

    , 1972
  • "Stars" (Chloe song)
    Stars (Chloe song)
    "Stars" is the first song released by Chloe from her debut album Beyond Coming.The song was written by Chloe, Michelle Louis and Dan Petty. The song is very close to Chloe...

  • "Stars" (The Cranberries song)
    Stars (The Cranberries song)
    "Stars" is a song by The Cranberries from the compilation album Stars: The Best of 1992-2002, and was released in October 2002. It is the band's last single released before their six-year hiatus...

    , 2002
  • "Star" (Erasure song)
    Star (Erasure song)
    "Star" is a song by Erasure, released in 1990 as the fourth European single from the group's fourth studio album Wild!....

    , 1990
  • "Star" (Extreme song)
  • "Stars" (Hum song)
    Stars (Hum song)
    "Stars" is the second single from Hum's 1995 album You'd Prefer an Astronaut. The single was modestly successful in the United States, peaking at number eleven on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks, and at number twenty-eight on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The single was instrumental in helping You'd...

    , 1995
  • "Stars" (Mika Nakashima song)
    Stars (Mika Nakashima song)
    "Stars" is Mika Nakashima's debut single. The single was released on November 7, 2001, reached #3 on Oricon Weekly Top 200, and sold 469,180 copies, making it her highest-selling single to date...

  • "Stars" (Roxette song)
    Stars (Roxette song)
    "Stars" is the third single from the Have a Nice Day album by the Swedish duo Roxette. The single was released in August 1999.-Song information:...

    , 1999
  • "Stars" (Simply Red song)
    Stars (Simply Red song)
    Stars is a single by the band Simply Red. "Stars" was originally released in the 1991 album of the same name. The single reached #8 in the United Kingdom and was successful in some other countries in Europe, but did not reach the Top 40 in the United States, unlike Simply Red's previous single...

    , 1991
  • "Stars" (Dan Fogelberg song)
    Stars (Dan Fogelberg song)
    "Stars" is a 1972 ballad from Dan Fogelberg's debut album, Home Free, and the second track on the album. The song was written by Fogelberg and produced by Norbert Putnam. The song was released on the Epic Records label. The song was later covered Amy Holland in 1980 on her debut album and by Alison...

    , 1972
  • "Star" (Stellar* song)
  • "Stars" (Switchfoot song)
    Stars (Switchfoot song)
    "Stars" is the first single released from Switchfoot's fifth album Nothing Is Sound. It was the most-added song on Modern Rock Radio in its first week of release and peaked at number sixteen on the US Modern Rock chart. The song was certified gold as a digital single on December 13, 2005...

  • "Stars" (Destine song)
    Stars (Destine song)
    -Chart positions:...

  • "Star", by Biddu and Zohaib Hassan from Star/Boom Boom
    Star/Boom Boom
    Star/Boom Boom is the second music album of famous brother and sister duo Nazia Hassan & Zohaib Hassan released in 1982. A movie was made on the music in Bollywood called Star....

  • "Stars", by China Black
    China Black
    China Black was a British pop-reggae duo, consisting of Simon Fung and Errol Reid -Overview:...

  • "Star", by The Crash from Wildlife
    Wildlife (The Crash album)
    Wildlife is the second studio album by Finnish Britpop band The Crash, released in 2001.-Track listing:-Band members:*Teemu Brunila – vocals, guitar*Samuli Haataja – bass guitar*Erkki Kaila – drums*Tomi Mäkilä – keyboard...

  • "Star", by The Cult from The Cult
    The Cult (album)
    The Cult is the sixth studio album from English rock band, The Cult. It was released in October, 1994 on Beggars Banquet Records and it is also the band's last album on Sire Records in the USA. It is also commonly referred to as the "Black Sheep" record, due to the image of a Manx Loaghtan black...

  • "Stars", by Dubstar from Disgraceful
    Disgraceful
    Disgraceful was Dubstar's debut album. It was released in October 1995 on the Food Records label, a division of EMI that was also home to Blur.-Track listing:#"Stars"#"Anywhere"#"Just A Girl She Said"#"Elevator Song"#"The Day I See You Again"...

  • "Star", by The Hollies from Write On
    Write On (The Hollies album)
    Write On is the first of two 1976 studio albums from English rock/pop band, The Hollies. This album, like the band's previous effort, features mostly songs written by the group's songwriting team. The final track of the album is the only one not composed by them...

  • "Stars", by Janis Ian
    Janis Ian
    Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...

  • "Star", by Kiki Dee
    Kiki Dee
    Kiki Dee is an English singer with a career spanning more than 40 years....

  • "Stars", by Kylie Minogue from X
    X (Kylie Minogue album)
    X is the tenth studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It is her first release since the greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie , and her first studio album since Body Language . X was preceded by lead single "2 Hearts" and released worldwide in November 2007...

  • "Stars", by Mark Gormley
    Mark Gormley
    Mark Gormley is a singer-songwriter from Pensacola, Florida who achieved internet fame for his music videos on YouTube. He mostly performs acoustic rock consisting of acoustic guitar and vocals.-Early years:...

  • "Star", by Primal Scream from Vanishing Point
    Vanishing Point (album)
    Vanishing Point is a 1997 album by Primal Scream. It is named after and inspired by the 1971 film Vanishing Point, especially the song "Kowalski", which is meant to be an alternative soundtrack to the movie...

  • "Star", by Silverbullit
    Silverbullit
    Silverbullit is a Swedish rock band based in Göteborg. Formed in 1995 under the name "Silverbullet", which was changed after a conflict over the rights for the name. They are known under the name Citizen Bird in the US, and have toured under that name and released their album Citizen Bird as a...

  • "Star", by Stealers Wheel
    Stealers Wheel
    Stealers Wheel are a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty.The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed without Egan and Rafferty in 2008.-Biography:...

  • "Stars", by t.A.T.u. from 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
    200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
    200 km/h in the Wrong Lane is the debut studio album by Russian duo t.A.T.u.. It was released on 10 December 2002. The album was produced by Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum, Robert Orton and Ivan Shapovalov, who was the main and executive producerand writer. Before the release, it preceded...

  • "Star", by Terri Walker from L.O.V.E
    L.O.V.E (album)
    "L.O.V.E" is the title of the second album from UK R&B / Soul singer Terri Walker. The album was released in 2004 by Mercury Records and spawned 2 singles, "Whoopsie Daisy", which just missed out on a UK top 40 chart placing and "This Is My Time", which was cancelled just before the release...

  • "Star (*)", by Project 86 from Drawing Black Lines
    Drawing Black Lines
    -Personnel:*Andrew Schwab – vocals*Randy Torres – guitar, vocals, piano*Stephen Dail – bass, guitar*Alex Albert – drums*GGGarth – producer, additional engineer*Brandon Ebel - executive producer*Andre Wahl - engineer, mixing...

  • "Stars", from the musical Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)
    Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....


Films

  • Star (2001 film), a 2001 Tamil film
  • Star (1982 film)
    Star (1982 film)
    Star is a Bollywood movie made in 1982, starring Kumar Gaurav, Rati Agnihotri, Raj Kiran, Saeed Jaffrey, A.K. Hangal, Dina Pathak and Padmini Kolhapure. It had a very successful soundtrack released as Star/Boom Boom, produced by Biddu and sung by Nazia Hassan....

    , a 1982 Hindi film
  • Star! (film)
    Star! (film)
    Star! is a 1968 American musical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based upon the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.-Plot:...

    , a 1968 musical starring Julie Andrews
  • Danielle Steel's Star
    Danielle Steel's Star
    Danielle Steel's Star is a 1993 made-for-television film starring Jennie Garth, Craig Bierko, Terry Farrell, Penny Fuller and Mitchell Ryan. This film is based on the novel Star by author Danielle Steel...

    , a 1993 television film starring Jennie Garth

Broadcasting

  • Star!, a Canadian cable channel
  • Star Channel
    Star Channel
    Star Channel is a Greek television network that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It launched in December 1993 and is owned by Nea Tileorasi A.E.. The main news bulletin is called Star Eidiseis, which is currently hosted by Aimilios Liatsos...

    , a Greek television channel
  • STAR TV (Asia)
    STAR TV (Asia)
    Satellite Television Asian Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.In 2009, News Corporation restructured STAR Asia into four units – STAR India, STAR Greater China, STAR Select and Fox International Channels....

    , a broadcasting corporation
  • Star TV (Turkey) a Turkish television channel
  • Star (radio), the name of several radio stations
  • STAR (Greater China), an Asian TV service
  • STAR (India)
    STAR (India)
    Satellite Television Asian Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with regional offices in cities Delhi and Chennai....

    , an Asian TV service

Association football (soccer)

  • NSC Minnesota Stars
    NSC Minnesota Stars
    The NSC Minnesota Stars is an American professional soccer team based in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area in Minnesota, United States. Founded in 2010, the team plays in the North American Soccer League , the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid...

    , an American soccer team in the NASL
  • Star (football crest)
    Star (football crest)
    In association football, some national and club sides include one or more stars as part of the crest appearing on their shirt, to represent important trophies the team has previously won. Sometimes this is a unilateral decision by the team concerned rather than a privilege earned and sanctioned...

  • Supporters' Trust At Reading, a Reading Football Club supporters' organization

Baseball

  • Hollywood Stars
    Hollywood Stars
    The Hollywood Stars were a minor league baseball team that played in the Pacific Coast League during the early and mid 20th century. They were the arch-rivals of the other Los Angeles based PCL team, the Los Angeles Angels.-Hollywood Stars :...

    , an American minor-league baseball team that operated from 1926–1935 and 1938–1957
  • Huntsville Stars
    Huntsville Stars
    The Huntsville Stars are a minor league baseball team of the Southern League and are the Double-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. They are located in Huntsville, Alabama and are named for the space industry with which Huntsville is economically tied .The Stars play their home games at Joe W...

    , a current American minor-league baseball team

Basketball

  • Los Angeles Stars, a basketball team from 1968–1970 in the original American Basketball Association
  • Los Angeles Stars (2000–2001)
    Los Angeles Stars (2000–2001)
    -External links:...

    , a basketball team from 2000–2001 in the newer American Basketball Association
  • Los Angeles Stars (2004–2005), a basketball team from 2004–2005 in the newer American Basketball Association
  • Utah Stars
    Utah Stars
    The Utah Stars was an American Basketball Association team based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.Under head coach Bill Sharman the Stars were the first major professional basketball team to use a pre-game shootaround.-History:...

    , a 1970–1976 American basketball team, formerly the Los Angeles Stars
  • Utah Starzz
    Utah Starzz
    The Utah Starzz were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They began play in the 1997 WNBA season as one of the league's eight original teams. The Starzz relocated, in 2003, to San Antonio, Texas where the team became the San Antonio Silver Stars...

    , a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team

Hockey

  • Dallas Stars
    Dallas Stars
    The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...

    , an American hockey team in the NHL
  • Manglerud Star Ishockey
    Manglerud Star Ishockey
    Manglerud Star Ishockey is a Norwegian ice hockey team from Manglerud.The club has delivered more players to professional hockey leagues around the world than any other hockey team in Norway...

    , an Norwegian hockey team in the GET-ligaen
  • Minnesota North Stars
    Minnesota North Stars
    The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...

    , the 1967–1993 incarnation of the Dallas Stars NHL franchise
  • Texas Stars
    Texas Stars
    The Texas Stars are an American Hockey League team. They play in Cedar Park, Texas, near Austin.The team is the top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. In April 2008, the Iowa Stars announced that they would no longer affiliate with the Dallas Stars, and changed the team's name to Chops for the...

    , an American hockey team in the AHL

Games

  • Stars (shader effect)
    Stars (shader effect)
    Stars is a computer graphics effect used by computer games. The effect takes the bright parts of a rendered image of the scene, and then smears them outward in a number of directions. The result is that bright areas have streaks emanating from them. Stars can be used to enhance blooming...

    , a computer graphics effect used by computer games
  • Star, fictional character in Yie Ar Kung-Fu game
  • STARS, fictional group, in Resident Evil
    Resident Evil (video game)
    Resident Evil, known as in Japan, is a survival horror video game by Capcom. The first installment in the Resident Evil series, it was originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation and was subsequently ported to the Sega Saturn and PC. In 2002, a remake of the game was released for the Nintendo...

    & elsewhere in its franchise
  • "Star" (board game)
    Star (board game)
    Star is a two-player abstract strategy board game developed in by Craige Schensted . It was first published in 1983 in Games magazine. It is connection game, related to games such as Hex, Y, Havannah, and TwixT. Unlike these games, however, the result is based a player having a higher final...

  • "*Star
    *Star
    *Star is a complex abstract strategy game by Ea Ea, a designer of Y. It is a redevelopment of his earlier game Star.-Rules:*Star can be played on graphs of different sizes. The three shown boards have 105, 180, and 275 nodes of which 30, 40, and 50 are on the perimeter...

    ", board game
  • Stars (game), a 1970s game in BASIC
  • Stars (series), soccer-simulation games
  • Stars!
    Stars!
    Stars! is a complex turn-based computer game based around the management of planets and fleets of spaceships following the 4X game model...

    , a 1995 game for Windows

Mathematics

  • Star (game theory)
  • Star (graph theory)
    Star (graph theory)
    In graph theory, a star Sk is the complete bipartite graph K1,k: a tree with one internal node and k leaves...

  • Star-algebra
    Star-algebra
    -*-ring:In mathematics, a *-ring is an associative ring with a map * : A → A which is an antiautomorphism and an involution.More precisely, * is required to satisfy the following properties:* ^* = x^* + y^** ^* = y^* x^** 1^* = 1...

    , an associative algebra
  • Star domain
    Star domain
    In mathematics, a set S in the Euclidean space Rn is called a star domain if there exists x_0 in S such that for all x in S the line segment from x_0 to x is in S...

    , a concept in set theory
  • Kleene star
    Kleene star
    In mathematical logic and computer science, the Kleene star is a unary operation, either on sets of strings or on sets of symbols or characters. The application of the Kleene star to a set V is written as V*...

    , a unary operation
  • Star refinement
    Star refinement
    In mathematics, specifically in the study of topology and open covers of a topological space X, a star refinement is a particular kind of refinement of an open cover of X....

    , a concept in topology
  • Star polygon, a non-convex shape
  • A set of simplices in a simplicial complex
    Simplicial complex
    In mathematics, a simplicial complex is a topological space of a certain kind, constructed by "gluing together" points, line segments, triangles, and their n-dimensional counterparts...

  • Hodge star operator
    Hodge dual
    In mathematics, the Hodge star operator or Hodge dual is a significant linear map introduced in general by W. V. D. Hodge. It is defined on the exterior algebra of a finite-dimensional oriented inner product space.-Dimensions and algebra:...

    , a map related to differential forms

Land

  • Star (automobile)
    Star (automobile)
    The Star was an automobile marque that was assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928. Also known as the Star Car, Star was envisioned as a competitor against the Ford Model T...

    , a 1920s American car
  • Star class locomotive
  • Star Motor Company
    Star Motor Company
    The Star Motor Company was a British car and commercial vehicle maker based in Wolverhampton and active from 1898 to 1932.Star was founded by the Lisle family who like many other vehicle makers started by making bicycles, in their case in 1893 as Sharratt and Lisle...

    , an 1898–1932 British car manufacturer
  • FSC Star, a Polish truck manufacturer
  • Southern Tagalog Arterial Road
    Southern Tagalog Arterial Road
    The Southern Tagalog Arterial Road is a four-lane and two-lane expressway in the Philippines...

    , an expressway in the Philippines

Water

  • Star (sailboat)
    Star (sailboat)
    The International Star is a 6.9 m one-design racing keelboat for two people.The boat must weigh at least 671 kg with a maximum total sail area of 26.5 m . It is sloop-rigged, with a mainsail larger in proportional size than any other boat of its length...

  • Star Cruises
    Star Cruises
    Star Cruises , a member of Genting Hong Kong, is the sixth largest cruise line in the world behind companies such as Carnival Corporation and Royal Caribbean Cruises...

  • Star Ferry
    Star Ferry
    The Star Ferry, or The "Star" Ferry Company, is a passenger ferry service operator in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon...

    , a Hong Kong ferryboat service
  • MS Star
    MS Star
    MS Star is a fast Ro-Pax ferry operated by the Estonian ferry company Tallink. She was built at Aker Finnyards Hietalahti shipyard, Helsinki, Finland and entered service on Tallink's Helsinki–Tallinn service on 12 April 2007....

    , an Estonian ferry
  • Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race
    Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race
    The Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race, or STAR, is an east-to-west yacht race across the North Atlantic. When inaugurated in 1960, it was the first single-handed ocean yacht race; it is run from Plymouth to the USA, and is held every four years....

    , a yacht race

Air

  • Star Airlines
    Star Airlines
    XL Airways France is a French airline with its head offices on the grounds of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and in Tremblay-en-France. It operates scheduled flights mainly to long-haul destinations in Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean as well as charter flights to medium-haul destinations...

    , former name of XL Airways France
  • Star Air (disambiguation), the name of several airlines
  • Star Alliance
    Star Alliance
    Star Alliance is the world's first and largest airline alliance, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany . The alliance was founded in 1997 by five of the world's leading airlines: Air Canada, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Thai Airways International and United Airlines...

    , an alliance of airlines
  • Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society
    Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society
    The Alberta Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society was formed in Calgary, Alberta to provide emergency medical care and transport to the critically ill and injured...

    , an air ambulance service
  • Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR), a flight procedure
  • Fulton surface-to-air recovery system
    Fulton surface-to-air recovery system
    The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system is a system used by the CIA, United States Air Force and United States Navy for retrieving persons on the ground from an MC-130E Combat Talon I aircraft. It involves using an overall-type harness and a self-inflating balloon which carries an attached lift...

     (STARS)

Academic

  • STAR (software)
    STAR (software)
    STAR Reading, STAR Early Literacy and STAR Math are standardized, computer-adaptive assessments created by Renaissance Learning, Inc., for use in K-12 education. Each is a "Tier 2" assessment of a skill that can be used any number of times due to item-bank technology...

    , an educational software series
  • STAR (student association)
  • California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, a school assessment program
  • Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman
    Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman
    Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman is a public fully residential school in Malaysia fully funded by the Government of Malaysia. Named after the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of the Federation of Malaya, Almarhum Seri Paduka Baginda Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, it is located in Ipoh,...

    , a Malaysian public school
  • New York State School Tax Relief Program
    New York State School Tax Relief Program
    The New York State School Tax Relief Program , or New York State Real Property Tax Law §425, is a school tax rebate program offered in New York State aimed at reducing school district property taxes on the primary residences of New York residents...


Science and technology

  • Star network
    Star network
    Star networks are one of the most common computer network topologies. In its simplest form, a star network consists of one central switch, hub or computer, which acts as a conduit to transmit messages...

    , a computer network topology
  • Star schema
    Star schema
    In computing, the star schema is the simplest style of data warehouse schema. The star schema consists of one or more fact tables referencing any number of dimension tables...

    , a data warehousing model
  • STAR Bus
    STAR Bus
    STAR Bus is a satellite platform manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation with an apogee kick motor to place a communications satellite into geostationary orbit, a thruster to provide the satellite with orbital station-keeping for a 15 year mission, and solar arrays to provide the satellite...

    , a satellite platform
  • STAR detector
    STAR detector
    The STAR detector is one of the four experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States....

    , a particle physics experiment
  • Pyrotechnic star
    Pyrotechnic star
    Pyrotechnic stars are pellets or simply pieces of pyrotechnic composition which may contain metal powders, salts or other compounds that, when ignited, burn a certain colour or exude a spark effect. They are a part of all projectile-type fireworks. The most common is the aerial shell. When...

  • Xerox Star
    Xerox Star
    The Star workstation, officially known as the Xerox 8010 Information System, was introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1981. It was the first commercial system to incorporate various technologies that today have become commonplace in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based...

    , a 1981 computer workstation
  • Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
    Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
    The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, commonly referred to as StAR , is a transport protein that regulates cholesterol transfer within the mitochondria, which is the rate-limiting step in the production of steroid hormones...

    , a transport protein
  • Synthetically thinned aperture radar
    Synthetically thinned aperture radar
    Synthetic Thinned Aperture Radiometry is a method of radar in which the coherent product of the signal from pairs of antennas is measured at different antenna-pair spacings . These products yield sample points in the Fourier transform of the brightness temperature map of the scene, and the scene...

    , a interferometric radar method
  • Stars, an unofficial codename for AMD's K10 microarchitecture

Military and law enforcement

  • Special Tasks and Rescue
    Special Tasks and Rescue
    Special Tasks and Rescue is the Police Tactical Group of the South Australia Police.-History:Formed on 30 November 1978 the South Australian Police STAR Group was a rationalisation of specialist resources into one command/unit. Specialist units had existed prior to 1978 within SAPOL to deal with...

    , a division of the South Australia police
  • Special Task And Rescue
    Special Task And Rescue
    The Special Task And Rescue or STAR is an elite counter-terrorism and special forces of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency established to protect a local maritime assets of Malaysia. The team were started operating with minimum memberships with one Malaysian Maritime senior officer and one...

    , a division of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
  • Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore)
    Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore)
    The Special Tactics and Rescue is the elite Special Operations SWAT of the Singapore Police Force. Its official task is to provide the Singapore Police Force with a tactical armed-response capability, and its motto is "Vigilance, Valour, Victory"....

    , a division of the Singapore Police Force
  • HMCS Star
    HMCS Star
    HMCS Star is a unit of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada....

    , a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command
  • A star ranking, as in a five-star rank

Graphic devices

  • Star (glyph)
    Star (glyph)
    In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.-Four points:-Five points:See also Five-pointed starSee also:* mullet * pentagram- Six points :See also:...

    , a depiction of a star in typography
  • Star (polygon)
  • Star (heraldry)
  • * (disambiguation)

Other acronyms and initialisms

  • St. Austin Review
    St. Austin Review
    The St. Austin Review is a Catholic international review of culture and ideas. It is edited by author and columnist Joseph Pearce and writer Robert Asch...

    (StAR), a Catholic magazine
  • STAR (interbank network)
    STAR (interbank network)
    STAR is an interbank network and EFTPOS network in the United States. It is the largest American interbank network, with 250,000 ATMs, 134 million cardholders and over 5,700 participating financial institutions. The network is owned and operated by STAR Networks, a subsidiary company of First Data...

  • S.T.A.R. Labs
    S.T.A.R. Labs
    S.T.A.R. Labs, is a fictional research facility, and comic book organization appearing in titles published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Superman vol. 1 #246 , and was created by Cary Bates and Rich Buckler.-Publication history:...

    , an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
  • Situation, Task, Action, Result
    Situation, Task, Action, Result
    The STAR format is a job interview technique used by interviewers to gather all the relevant information about a specific capability that the job requires...

    , an interview technique
  • The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers
    The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers
    The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, known as STAR is a United Kingdom body formed to provide self-regulation within the theatre and event ticket sales industry...

    , a UK organization
  • Stolen Asset Recovery
  • School Tax Relief Program in New York State
  • Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
    Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
    Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries was a transgender activist organization founded in 1970 by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Marsha and Sylvia used to hustle the streets in order to keep their children from having to do the same to feed and shelter themselves...

    , a transgender organization
  • STAR Events, a leadership program of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
  • Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal
    Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal
    Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal is a Jewish advocacy organization to support synagogues in the United States.-Overview:It was founded in 2000 by Edgar Bronfman, Charles Schusterman and Michael Steinhardt. It is headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Lynn Schusterman, the co-founder's...

    , American Jewish organisation

Other uses

  • Star (Unix), an implementation of the tar file archiver
  • Stars virus
    Stars virus
    The Stars virus is a computer virus discovered by Iran in April 2011. Iran claims it is being used as a tool to commit espionage. The Stars virus is currently being studied in a laboratory in Iran - that means, major vendors of antivirus software do not have access to samples and therefore they...

    , computer virus that was discovered by Iran in 2011
  • Star (classification)
    Star (classification)
    Stars are often used as symbols for classification purposes. They are used by reviewers for ranking things such as movies, TV shows, restaurants, and hotels. For example, one to five stars is commonly employed to categorize hotels.-Restaurant ratings:...

    , used to rank restaurants, films, etc
  • Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
  • Star (magazine)
    Star (magazine)
    Star is an American celebrity tabloid magazine.-History:Star was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1974 as competition to the tabloid National Enquirer with its headquarters in New York City. In the late 1980s it moved its offices to Tarrytown, NY and in 1990 Murdoch sold the magazine to The Enquirers...

  • Stars (restaurant)
    Stars (restaurant)
    Stars was a landmark restaurant in San Francisco, California from 1984 through 1999. Along with Spago, Michael's and Chez Panisse it is considered one of the birthplaces of California Cuisine, New American cuisine, and the institution of the celebrity chef....

  • Star routes
    Star routes
    Star routes is a term used in connection with the United States postal service and the contracting of mail delivery services. The term is defunct as of 1970, but still is occasionally used to refer to Highway Contract Routes or which replaced the Star routes.-Background:Prior to 1845,...

    , a US Postal Service term
  • Celebrity
    Celebrity
    A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...

    , a famous person
  • Movie star
    Movie star
    A movie star is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures. The term may also apply to an actor or actress who is recognized as a marketable commodity and whose name is used to promote a movie in trailers and posters...

    , a celebrity famous for performing in films
  • Stars (newspaper), a regional newspaper published in Latvia
  • Stars (M. C. Escher)
    Stars (M. C. Escher)
    Stars is a wood engraving print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in October 1948, depicting two chameleons in a polyhedral cage floating through space.-Description:...

    , a wood engraving print by M. C. Escher
  • Star (Chinese constellation)
    Star (Chinese constellation)
    The Star mansion is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the southern mansions of the Vermilion Bird.- Asterisms :...

  • Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A.
    Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A.
    Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. was a manufacturer of small arms in the Basque region of Spain from about 1905 until 1997.-Bonifacio Echeverria and the ancestry of Star:...

    , a Spanish firearms company
  • Star Records
    Star Records
    Star Records, referring loosely to two companies, Star Recording and Star Songs Music Publishing, is an ABS-CBN Entertainment Group company whose main lines of business include: producing, developing and distributing audio and video content; music publishing; events production and music artists...

    , a recording company in the Philippines
  • Star, a novel by Pamela Anderson
    Pamela Anderson
    Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...

  • Star (novel), a novel by Danielle Steel
    Danielle Steel
    Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel , better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas....

  • An equine coat marking

See also

  • The Star (disambiguation)
  • List of symbolic stars
  • Asterisk (disambiguation)
    Asterisk (disambiguation)
    An asterisk is a typographic symbol that has "*" as a typical rendering.Asterisk also may refer to:* Asterisk , a liturgical implement* Asterisk , an open source telephone system* "Asterisk" , by Orange Range- See also :...

  • * (disambiguation)
  • Starr (disambiguation)
  • Starz (disambiguation)
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