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Cepheid variables, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. (credit: NASA-HQ-GRIN)

Any massive celestial body of gas that shines by radiant energy generated inside it. The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars; only a very small fraction are visible to the unaided eye. The closest star to Earth is the Sun. The closest star to the Sun is about 4.2 light-years away; the most distant are in galaxies billions of light-years away. Single stars such as the Sun are the minority; most stars occur in pairs and multiple systems ( binary star). Stars also associate by their mutual gravity in larger assemblages called clusters ( globular cluster; open cluster). Constellations consist not of such groupings but of stars in the same direction as seen from Earth. Stars vary greatly in brightness (magnitude), colour, temperature, mass, size, chemical composition, and age. In nearly all, hydrogen is the most abundant element. Stars are classified by their spectra ( spectrum), from blue-white to red, as O, B, A, F, G, K, or M; the Sun is a spectral type G star. Generalizations on the nature and evolution of stars can be made from correlations between certain properties and from statistical results ( Hertzsprung-Russell diagram). A star forms when a portion of a dense interstellar cloud of hydrogen and dust grains collapses from its own gravity. As the cloud condenses, its density and internal temperature increase until it is hot enough to trigger nuclear fusion in its core (if not, it becomes a brown dwarf). After hydrogen is exhausted in the core from nuclear burning, the core shrinks and heats up while the star's outer layers expand significantly and cool, and the star becomes a red giant. The final stages of a star's evolution, when it no longer produces enough energy to counteract its own gravity, depend largely on its mass and whether it is a component of a close binary system ( black hole; neutron star; nova; pulsar; supernova; white dwarf star). Some stars other than the Sun are known to have one or more planets ( extrasolar planet). Cepheid variable; dwarf star; eclipsing variable star; flare star; giant star; Populations I and II; supergiant star; T Tauri star; variable star.

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A self-luminous body that during its life generates (or will generate) energy and support by thermonuclear fusion.

Names

Over 6000 stars can be seen with the unaided eye. The brightest carry proper names from ancient times, most of Arabic origin. A more general system names stars within constellations by Greek letters roughly in accord with apparent brightness, followed by the Latin genitive of the constellation name (for example, Vega, in Lyra, is also Alpha Lyrae). More generally yet, brighter stars carry numbers in easterly order within a constellation (Vega also 3 Lyrae). All naked-eye stars also have HR (Harvard Revised) numbers assigned in order east of the vernal equinox. A variety of catalogs list millions of telescopic stars. See also Astronomical catalogs; Constellation.

Magnitudes and colors

About 130 B.C., Hipparchus assigned naked-eye stars to six brightness groups or “apparent magnitudes” (m), with first magnitude the brightest. This scheme is now quantified as a logarithmic system such that five magnitudes correspond to a factor of 100 in brightness, rendering first magnitude 2.512··· times brighter than second, and so on.

Stars assume subtle colors from red to blue-white, reflecting different spectral energy distributions that result from temperatures ranging from under 2000 K (3100°F) to over 100,000 K (180,000°F). The magnitude of a star therefore depends on the detector's color sensitivity. Numerous magnitude systems range from the ultraviolet into the infrared, though the apparent visual magnitude (m_v = V) is still standard. The differences among the systems allow measures of stellar color and temperature. See also Color index; Magnitude (astronomy).

Distances

The fundamental means of finding stellar distances is parallax. As the Earth moves in orbit around the Sun, a nearby star will appear to shift its location against the background. The parallax (p in arcseconds) is defined as one half the total shift, and is the angle subtended by the Earth's orbital radius as seen from the star. Distance in parsecs (pc) is 1/pc, where 1 pc = 206,265 AU = 3.26 light-years. (A light-year is the distance that a ray of light will travel in a year.) The nearest star, a telescopic companion to Alpha Centauri, is 1.29 pc = 4.22 light-years away. See also Light-year; Parallax (astronomy); Parsec.

Distribution and motions

All the unaided-eye stars and 200 billion more are collected into the Milky Way Galaxy (or simply, the Galaxy), 98% concentrated into a thin disk over 100,000 light-years across. From the Sun, inside the disk and 27,000 light-years from the Galaxy's center in Sagittarius, the disk appears as the Milky Way. Surrounding the disk is a vast but sparsely populated halo.

Angular proper motions across the line depend on velocities across the line of sight and distances. Statistical analysis of these motions shows the Sun to be moving through the local stars at a speed of 20 km/s (12 mi/s), roughly toward Vega. From radial velocities of sources outside the Galaxy, it is found that the Sun moves in a roughly circular orbit at 220 km/s (137 mi/s), which when combined with the space motions of other stars allows their galactic orbits to be determined. Stars in the disk have closely circular orbits; those in the halo have elliptical ones. See also Doppler effect; Milky Way Galaxy.

Absolute magnitudes

The apparent visual magnitude of a star depends on its intrinsic visual luminosity and on the inverse square of the distance. Knowledge of the distance allows the determination of the true visual luminosity, expressed as the absolute visual magnitude, M_v. This quantity is defined as the apparent visual magnitude that the star would have at a distance of 10 pc. Absolute visual magnitudes range from M_v = −10 to +20 (a factor of 10¹²). The Sun's absolute visual magnitude is in the middle of this range, +4.83.

Spectral classes

Stars exhibit a variety of absorption-line spectra. The absorptions, narrow cuts in the spectra, are produced by atoms, ions, and molecules in the stars' thin, semitransparent outer layers, or atmospheres. Over a century ago, Edward C. Pickering lettered them according to the strengths of their hydrogen lines. After he and his assistants dropped some letters and rearranged others for greater continuity, they arrived at the standard spectral sequence, OBAFGKM, which was later decimalized (the Sun is in class G2). Classes L and T were added in 1999. Since the sequence correlates with color, it must also correlate with temperature, which ranges from 55,000 K (100,000°F) for hot class O, through about 6000 K (10,000°F) for solar-type class G, to under 2000 K (3100°F) for class L, and below 1000 K (1300°F) for class T (all of which are brown dwarf substars).

The majority of stars in the galactic disk have chemical compositions like that of the Sun. Differences in spectra result primarily from changes in molecular and ionic composition and in the efficiencies of absorption, all of which correlate with temperature. See also Astronomical spectroscopy; Spectral type.

Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Shortly after the invention of the spectral sequence, H. N. Russell and E. Hertzsprung showed that luminosity correlates with spectral class. A graph of absolute visual (or bolometric) magnitude (luminosity increasing upward) plotted against spectral class (or temperature, decreasing toward the right) is called the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram (see illustration). The majority of stars lie in a band in which luminosity climbs up and to the left with temperature (with the Sun in the middle). But another band begins near the location of the Sun and proceeds up and to the right (to lower temperature), luminosities increasing to thousands solar as temperature drops to class M. To be bright and cool, such stars must have large radiating areas and radii. To distinguish between the bands, the larger stars are called giants, while those of the main band are termed dwarfs (or main-sequence stars). Yet brighter stars to the cool side of the main sequence, with luminosities approaching 10⁶ solar, are called supergiants. In between the giants and the dwarfs lie a few subgiants. At the top, superior to the supergiants, are the very rare hypergiants. See also Dwarf star; Giant star; Subgiant star; Supergiant star.

Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram, showing the positions of the major kinds of stars.

In the lower left corner of the diagram, beneath the main sequence, are stars so dim that they must be very small. Since the first ones found were hot and white, they became known as white dwarfs in spite of their actual temperatures or colors. White dwarfs must be positioned on the HR diagram according to their temperatures (rather than their spectral classes). See also White dwarf star.

Stars in the galactic halo are deficient in heavy elements. Low metal content makes halo dwarfs bluer than those of the standard main sequence, shifting them to the left and seemingly downward on the HR diagram, where they are known as subdwarfs. See also Stellar population.

Double and multiple stars

Most stars are members of some sort of community, from doubles through multiples (double-doubles, and so forth) to clusters, which themselves contain doubles. Separations between components of double stars range from thousands of astronomical units (with orbital periods of a million years) to stars that touch each other (and orbit in hours). See also Binary star.

Masses and main-sequence properties

Observations of hundreds of binary stars show that mass (M) increases upward along the main sequence from about 8% solar at cool class M to over 20 solar in the cooler end of class O. Extrapolation by theory suggests masses of 120 solar at the extreme hot end (class O3) of the main sequence. Fainter than the Sun, luminosity is proportional to M³; brighter than solar, luminosity goes as M⁴. This mass-luminosity relation is the result of higher internal temperatures and pressures in more massive stars caused by gravitational compression. See also Mass-luminosity relation.

As internal temperature climbs above the 8 × 10⁶ K limit, hydrogen fuses to helium via the proton-proton cycle at an ever-increasing rate. Above about 15 × 10⁶ K (27 × 10⁶ °F), so does fusion by the carbon cycle, in which carbon acts as a nuclear catalyst. See also Carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycles.

The onset of carbon-cycle dominance coincides with a change in stellar structure. The Sun has a radiatively stable core surrounded by an envelope whose outer parts are in a state of convection that helps produce a magnetic field and magnetic sunspots. Hotter dwarfs have shallower convection layers, and above class F, envelope convection disappears, the cores becoming convective. The convective layers of cooler dwarfs deepen, until below about 0.3 solar mass (class M4), convection takes over completely and the stars are thoroughly mixed. See also Convection (heat).

Below a lower mass limit of 8% solar, internal temperatures and densities are not great enough to allow the proton-proton chain to operate. Such stars, called brown dwarfs, glow dimly and redly from gravitational contraction and from the fusion of natural deuterium (²H) into helium. See also Brown dwarf.

Clusters

Doubles and multiples are highly structured. Clusters are not, the member stars orbiting a common center of mass. Open clusters are fairly small collections in which a few hundred or a thousand stars are scattered across a few tens of light-years. About 150 globular clusters occupy the Galaxy's halo, the poorest about as good as a rich open cluster, the best containing over a million stars within a volume 100 light-years across.

The HR diagrams of clusters are radically different from the HR diagrams of the general stellar field. Those of open clusters differ among themselves in having various portions of the upper main sequence removed. The effect is related to the cluster's age, since high-mass stars die first. Globular clusters, which lack an upper main sequence and are therefore all old, contain a distinctive “horizontal branch” composed of modest giants.

Variable stars

Dwarfs are generally stable. Giants and supergiants, however, can have structures that allow them to pulsate. Cepheids (named after the star Delta Cephei) are F and G supergiants and bright giants that occupy a somewhat vertical instability strip in the middle of the HR diagram. They vary regularly by about a magnitude over periods ranging from 1 to 50 days. The pulsation is driven by a deep layer of gas in which helium is becoming ionized. Larger and more luminous Cepheids take longer to pulsate. Once this period-luminosity relationship is calibrated through parallax and main-sequence cluster fitting, the period of a Cepheid gives its absolute magnitude, which in turn gives its distance. Cepheids are vital in finding distances to other galaxies. See also Cepheids; Hubble constant.

Miras (after the star Mira, Omicron Ceti), or long-period variables, are luminous giants that can vary visually by more than 10 magnitudes over periods that range from 50 to 1000 days, the pulsations again driven by deep ionization layers. See also Mira.

Duplicity produces its own set of intrinsic variations. If the members of a binary system are close enough together, one of them can transfer mass to the other, and instabilities in the transfer process cause the binary to flicker. If one companion is a white dwarf, infalling compressed hydrogen can erupt in a thermonuclear runaway, producing a sudden nova that can reach absolute magnitude −10. If the white dwarf gains enough matter such that it exceeds its allowed limit (the Chandrasekhar limit) of 1.4 solar masses, it can even explode as a supernova. See also Cataclysmic variable; Nova; Variable star.

Off the HR diagram

Various kinds of stars are not placeable on the classical HR diagram. The most common examples are the central stars of planetary nebulae, which are complex shells and rings of ionized gas that surround hot blue stars. See also Planetary nebula.

Even hotter neutron stars are found associated with the exploded remains of supernovae (supernova remnants). Only 25 or so kilometers (15 mi) across, the visible ones spin rapidly, and are highly magnetic, with fields 10¹² times the strength of Earth's field. Radiation beamed from tilted, wobbling magnetic axes can strike the Earth to produce seeming pulses of radiation. See also Neutron star; Pulsar.

Evolution

The different kinds of stars can be linked through theories of stellar evolution. Stars are born by the gravitational collapse of dense knots within cold dusty molecular clouds found only in the Galaxy's disk. When the new stars are hot enough inside to initiate fusion, their contraction halts and they settle onto the main sequence. The higher the stellar mass, the greater the internal compression and temperature, and the more luminous the star. But the higher the internal temperature, the greater the rate at which hydrogen is fused, and the shorter the star's life. See also Molecular cloud; Protostar; Stellar evolution.

noun

The main performer in a theatrical production: lead, principal, protagonist. See performing arts.

Idioms beginning with star:
starters
start from scratch
stare down
stare in the face
stark raving mad
stars in one's eyes, have
start
start in
start out
start over
start something

In addition to the idiom beginning with star, also see born under a lucky star; see stars; thank one's lucky stars.

Definition: famous, illustrious
Antonyms: insignificant, minor, unimportant, unknown

n

Definition: person who is famous
Antonyms: commoner, nobody, nonentity

Even apart from the complexities of astrology, stars (which, in popular speech, included planets, meteors, and comets) were thought to affect, or at least to indicate, the character and destiny of individuals and nations. To doubt this seemed almost immoral; in Shakespeare it is villains who deny the power of stars—Cassius (Julius Caesar, I. ii), and Edmund (King Lear, I. ii). Sirius, the Dog-Star, was thought to have a particularly baleful effect in July and August, when it rose at day-break, causing heat-waves, fevers, and madness. To point at stars or try to count them was reckoned unlucky, or even sinful, in the 19th century; it was said people had been struck dead for doing so.

The Bible included among the signs of Doomsday that ‘the stars shall fall from heaven’ (Matthew 24: 29), confirming a widespread fear that shooting stars meant death or disaster. Comets were even more dreaded, and were interpreted in national and political terms; famously, one was seen in 1066, and another shortly before the Great Plague.

Tutor's tip: Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, wish I may, wish I might, have this wish that I wish tonight.

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An object in the sky that sends out its own light, generated by nuclear reactions in its center. There are many billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

A color marking in a horse's coat consisting of a white spot in the center of the forehead; just a few white hairs is sometimes called a flame.

• Celestial Bodies - star: massive, very hot, luminous ball of highly ionized gases that derives its energy from continuous nuclear reactions
• Software, Languages, and Programming - star: alternate term for asterisk character
• Newspaper Names
• Actors, Characters, and Theater People - star: very popular, successful, and well-known actor who performs leading roles
• Movie People and Show Business - star: celebrated actor commanding major roles and high salary
• Punctuation and Diacritics - star: asterisk
• Respectful or Admiring Reference
• Shapes - star: figure with five or more points formed by overlapping triangles with common center

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A star is a luminous cosmic body.

Star or stars may also refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Russia 1.2 United Kingdom 1.3 United States 1.4 Elsewhere 2 Music 2.1 Bands 2.2 Albums 2.3 Songs 2.4 Singers 3 Films 4 Broadcasting 5 Sports 5.1 Association football (soccer) 5.2 Baseball 5.3 Basketball 5.4 Hockey 6 Games 7 Mathematics 8 Transportation 8.1 Land 8.2 Water 8.3 Air 9 Academic 10 Science and technology 11 Military and law enforcement 12 Graphic devices 13 Other acronyms and initialisms 14 Other uses 15 See also

Places

Russia

• Star, Bryansk Oblast, an urban-type settlement
• Star, Novgorod Oblast, a rural locality (village)

United Kingdom

• Star, Anglesey, Wales
• Star, Fife, Scotland
• Star, Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Star, Somerset, England

United States

• Star, Idaho
• Star, Michigan
• Star, Mississippi
• Star, North Carolina
• Star, Texas

Elsewhere

• Star, Alberta
• Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea

Music

Bands

• Stars (Australian band), from the 1970s
• Stars (Canadian band), an indie rock group formed in 2000
• Stars (British band), a 1972 supergroup
• The Stars, a Japanese psychedelic rock group

Albums

• Star (702 album), 2003
• Star (Belly album)
• Stars (Cher album), 1975
• Stars (Makai album), 2008
• Stars (Simply Red album), 1991
• Star (Mika Nakashima album)
• Star (Murk album)
• Stars: The Best of 1992–2002, by The Cranberries
• Star/Boom Boom, the soundtrack album to the 1982 film Star, by Biddu, Nazia Hassan, and Zohaib Hassan

Songs

• "Star" (Bryan Adams song), 1996
• "Star" (Kevin Ayers song), 1976
• "Star" (David Bowie song), 1972
• "Stars" (Chloe song)
• "Stars" (The Cranberries song), 2002
• "Star" (Erasure song), 1990
• "Star" (Extreme song)
• "Stars" (Hum song), 1995
• "Stars" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Stars" (Roxette song), 1999
• "Stars" (Simply Red song), 1991
• "Stars" (Dan Fogelberg song), 1972
• "Star" (Stellar* song)
• "Stars" (Switchfoot song)
• "Stars" (Destine song)
• "Star", by Biddu and Zohaib Hassan from Star/Boom Boom
• "Stars", by China Black
• "Star", by The Crash from Wildlife
• "Star", by The Cult from The Cult
• "Stars", by Dubstar from Disgraceful
• "Star", by The Hollies from Write On
• "Stars", by Janis Ian
• "Star", by Kiki Dee
• "Stars", by Kylie Minogue from X
• "Stars", by Mark Gormley
• "Star", by Primal Scream from Vanishing Point
• "Star", by Silverbullit
• "Star", by Stealers Wheel
• "Stars", by t.A.T.u. from 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
• "Star", by Terri Walker from L.O.V.E
• "Star (*)", by Project 86 from Drawing Black Lines
• "Stars", from the musical Les Misérables
• "Stars", 1986, by the hard rock/heavy metal collaboration Hear 'n Aid
• "The Stars", by Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position

Singers

• Zonnique "Star" Pullins, a member of the teenage girl group OMG Girlz

Films

• Star (2001 film), a 2001 Tamil film
• Star (1982 film), a 1982 Hindi film
• Star! (film), a 1968 musical starring Julie Andrews
• Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 television film starring Jennie Garth

Broadcasting

• Star!, a Canadian cable channel
• Star Channel, a Greek television channel
• STAR TV (Asia), 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), an Asian TV service

Sports

Association football (soccer)

• Minnesota Stars FC, an American soccer team in the NASL
• Star (football badge)
• Supporters' Trust At Reading, a Reading Football Club supporters' organization

Baseball

• Cleveland Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Cleveland Tate Stars, a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Cuban Stars (East), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Cuban Stars (West), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Detroit Stars, a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Hollywood Stars, an American minor-league baseball team that operated from 1926–1935 and 1938–1957
• Huntsville Stars, a current American minor-league baseball team
• Lincoln Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Newark Stars, a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Philadelphia Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• St. Louis Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team

Basketball

• Los Angeles Stars, a basketball team from 1968–1970 in the original American Basketball Association
• Los Angeles Stars (2000–2001), 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, a 1970–1976 American basketball team, formerly the Los Angeles Stars
• Utah Starzz, a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team

Hockey

• Dallas Stars, an American hockey team in the NHL
• Manglerud Star Ishockey, a Norwegian hockey team in the GET-ligaen
• Minnesota North Stars, the 1967–1993 incarnation of the Dallas Stars NHL franchise
• Texas Stars, an American hockey team in the AHL

Games

• Stars (shader effect), a computer graphics effect used by computer games
• Star, fictional character in Yie Ar Kung-Fu game
• STARS, fictional group, in Resident Evil & elsewhere in its franchise
• "Star" (board game)
• "*Star", board game
• Stars (game), a 1970s game in BASIC
• Stars (series), soccer-simulation games
• Stars!, a 1995 game for Windows

Mathematics

• Star (game theory)
• Star (graph theory)
• Star-algebra, an associative algebra
• Star domain, a concept in set theory
• Kleene star, a unary operation
• Star refinement, a concept in topology
• Star polygon, a non-convex shape
• A set of simplices in a simplicial complex
• Hodge star operator, a map related to differential forms

Transportation

Land

• Star (automobile), a 1920s American car
• Star class locomotive
• Star Motor Company, an 1898–1932 British car manufacturer
• FSC Star, a Polish truck manufacturer
• Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, an expressway in the Philippines

Water

• Star (sailboat)
• Star Cruises
• Star Ferry, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
• MS Star, an Estonian ferry
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, a yacht race

Air

• Star Airlines, former name of XL Airways France
• Star Air (disambiguation), the name of several airlines
• Star Alliance, an alliance of airlines
• Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, an air ambulance service
• Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR), a flight procedure
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (STARS)
• Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS), an air traffic control system.

Academic

• STAR (software), an educational software series
• STAR (student association)
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, a school assessment program
• Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a Malaysian public school
• New York State School Tax Relief Program
• STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness), a standardized test in Texas.

Science and technology

• Star network, a computer network topology
• Star schema, a data warehousing model
• STAR Bus, a satellite platform
• STAR detector, a particle physics experiment
• Pyrotechnic star
• Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, a transport protein
• Synthetically thinned aperture radar, a interferometric radar method
• Stars, an unofficial codename for AMD's K10 microarchitecture
• Star (Unix), an implementation of the tar file archiver
• Stars virus, computer virus that was discovered by Iran in 2011
• Star Micronics, a Japanese printer manufacturer

Military and law enforcement

• Special Tasks and Rescue, a division of the South Australia police
• Special Task And Rescue, a division of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
• Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore), a division of the Singapore Police Force
• HMCS Star, a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command
• A star ranking, as in a five-star rank

Graphic devices

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

Other acronyms and initialisms

• St. Austin Review (StAR), a Catholic magazine
• STAR (interbank network)
• S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
• Situation, Task, Action, Result, an interview technique
• The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, a UK organization
• Stolen Asset Recovery
• School Tax Relief Program in New York State
• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a transgender organization
• STAR Events, a leadership program of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
• Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal, American Jewish organisation
• Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.), a fictional police force in the Resident Evil series.

Other uses

• Star (classification), used to rank restaurants, films, etc.
• Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
• Star (magazine)
• Stars (restaurant)
• Star routes, a US Postal Service term
• Celebrity, a famous person
• Movie star, a celebrity famous for performing in films
• Stars (newspaper), a regional newspaper published in Latvia
• Stars (M. C. Escher), a wood engraving print by M. C. Escher
• Star (Chinese constellation)
• Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A., a Spanish firearms company
• Star Records, a recording company in the Philippines
• Star, a novel by Pamela Anderson
• Star, a novel by Danielle Steel
• An equine coat marking

See also

• The Star (disambiguation)
• List of symbolic stars
• Asterisk (disambiguation)
• * (disambiguation)
• Starr (disambiguation)
• Starz (disambiguation)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - stjerne, blis
v. tr. - spille hovedrolle, præsentere i en hovedrolle, optræde som stjerne
v. intr. - spille hovedrolle, optræde som stjerne, glimre, brillere
adj. - stjerne-

idioms:

• fixed star    fiksstjerne
• someone's star set    skæbnen er sat, det står i stjernerne
• star attraction    hovedattraktion
• Star of David    David-stjerne, jødestjerne
• star sign    stjernetegn
• star turn    glansnummer
• starlike airs    primadonnamanerer
• Stars and Stripes    Stars and Stripes; det amerikanske flag
• thank one's lucky stars    takke sin lykkestjerne, takke skæbnen

Nederlands (Dutch)
ster, asterisk, vedette, beroemdheid, hoofdrol spelen, sterren geven, uitblinken

Français (French)
n. - (Astron, Astrol) étoile, vedette, star, astérisque, étoile (hôtel), bon point (élève), (Mil) étoile, (Astrol) horoscope (npl)
v. tr. - (Cin, Théât) avoir pour vedette, parsemer (d'étoiles), marquer d'un astérisque, fêler (de la glace)
v. intr. - jouer le rôle principal (dans), se fêler, s'étoiler
adj. - de vedette, célèbre, distingué

idioms:

• fixed star    (Astron) étoile fixe
• someone's star set    la destinée/le destin de qn
• star attraction    attraction vedette
• Star of David    Étoile de David
• star sign    signe astrologique
• star turn    numéro de premier ordre, clou
• Stars and Stripes    bannière étoilée, couleurs du drapeau américain
• thank one's lucky stars    remercier sa bonne étoile

Deutsch (German)
n. - Stern, Star
v. - mit Sternen schmücken, die Hauptrolle spielen
adj. - herausragend

idioms:

• fixed star    Fixstern
• someone's star set    jmds. Stern ist untergegangen
• star attraction    Hauptattraktion
• Star of David    Davidstern
• star sign    Sternzeichen
• star turn    Hauptattraktion
• Stars and Stripes    Sternenbanner
• thank one's lucky stars    von Glück sagen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - άστρο, αστέρι, αστέρας, σταρ, γραφτό, ριζικό
v. - πρωταγωνιστώ
adj. - εξαιρετικός, ξεχωριστός

idioms:

• falling star    μετεωρίτης
• fixed star    (αστρον.) απλανής αστήρ
• someone's star set    έχει δύσει το αστέρι του
• star attraction    κορυφαία ατραξιόν, πρώτο όνομα
• Star of David    'Αστρο του Δαβίδ
• star sign    άστρο, ζώδιο
• star turn    κυριότερο νούμερο
• starlike airs    ύφος σταρ του σινεμά
• Stars and Stripes    η αστερόεσσα
• thank one's lucky stars    ευχαριστώ την τύχη μου

Italiano (Italian)
stella, asterisco, essere il protagonista

idioms:

• someone's star set    circolo esclusivo
• star attraction    attrazione principale
• Star of Bethlehem    stella di Betlemme
• Star of David    stella di Davide
• star sign    segno zodiacale
• star turn    numero principale
• Stars and Stripes    Stelle e Strisce (bandiera USA)
• thank one's lucky stars    ringraziare la propria stella

Português (Portuguese)
n. - estrela (f), celebridade (f)
v. - estrelar

idioms:

• fixed star    toda estrela do sistema de Ptolomeu que era presa a uma esfera de cristal
• someone's star set    passar o ponto alto da carreira
• star attraction    artista que é atração
• Star of David    estrela de Davi
• star sign    signo zodiacal
• star turn    movimento de uma estrela
• Stars and Stripes    a bandeira/o hino dos EEUU
• thank one's lucky stars    agradecer à boa sorte

Русский (Russian)
звезда, звездочка, выдающаяся личность, судьба, звездный, звездообразный, главный, знаменитый, с участием звезд, осветительный, усеивать звездами, награждать орденом, играть главную роль, блистать, помечать звездочкой

idioms:

• fixed star    неподвижная звезда
• someone's star set    чья-л. звезда закатилась
• star attraction    гвоздь программы
• Star of David    Щит фавида (шестиконечная звезда)
• star sign    знак зодиака
• star turn    гвоздь программы
• Stars and Stripes    государственный флаг США
• thank one's lucky stars    скажи спасибо, что

Español (Spanish)
n. - estrella, lucero, asterisco, primer actor
v. tr. - marcar con asterisco o estrella, adornar con lentejuelas, sembrar, tachonar de estrellas u objetos brillantes, presentar como estrella
v. intr. - brillar, resplandecer, romperse en forma de estrella
adj. - principal, sobresaliente, de estrella o estrellas, estrellado

idioms:

• fixed star    estrella fija (como oposición a las estrellas errantes)
• someone's star set    tiempo adjudicado a una persona para su actuación, destino de una persona
• star attraction    atracción estelar
• Star of David    estrella de David
• star sign    signo zodiacal
• star turn    atracción estelar
• Stars and Stripes    estrellas y listas, franjas y estrellas, (nombre popular de la bandera de los EE.UU.)
• thank one's lucky stars    estar agradecido por su buena estrella

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stjärna, asterisk, star
v. - presentera i huvudrollen, uppträda som stjärna, beströ med stjärnor
adj. - stjärn-, stellar, astro-, styr-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
星, 恒星, 星形物, 天体, 星号, 以星状物装饰, 使成为明星, 用星号标, 当明星, 主演, 表现出色, 星的, 明星的, 主角的, 星形的, 出色的, 优秀的

idioms:

• fixed star    恒星
• star attraction    最出色吸引人的东西
• Star of David    大卫之星, 犹太人标记两个正三角形叠成的六角形
• star sign    星座
• star turn    演出的主要节目, 主要演员
• starlike airs    趾高气扬
• Stars and Stripes    星条旗
• thank one's lucky stars    谢天谢地

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 星, 恆星, 星形物, 天體, 星號
v. tr. - 以星狀物裝飾, 使成為明星, 用星號標
v. intr. - 當明星, 主演, 表現出色
adj. - 星的, 明星的, 主角的, 星形的, 出色的, 優秀的

idioms:

• fixed star    恆星
• star attraction    最出色吸引人的東西
• Star of David    大衛之星, 猶太人標記兩個正三角形疊成的六角形
• star sign    星座
• star turn    演出的主要節目, 主要演員
• starlike airs    趾高氣揚
• Stars and Stripes    星條旗
• thank one's lucky stars    謝天謝地

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 별, 훈장, 인기 배우
v. tr. - 별로 장식하다, 주연을 시키다, 스타로 만들다
v. intr. - 별처럼 빛나다, 돈을 내고 차례를 사다, (영화에) 주연하다
adj. - 유명한, 뛰어난

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 星, 恒星, 星型の物, 星印, 星回り, スター, 人気者
v. - 星印を付ける, 飾る, 主演させる, スターにする

idioms:

• falling star    流星
• fixed star    恒星
• someone's star set    運勢
• star attraction    呼び物
• Star of David    ダビデの星
• star sign    黄道十二宮の一区分
• star turn    呼び物
• Stars and Stripes    星条旗

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نجم, نجمه (فعل) يمثل دورا رئيسيا (صفه) نجمي, على شكل نجمه, لامع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כוכב, מזל, כוכבית, עיטור‬
v. tr. - ‮עיטר בכוכבים, סימן בכוכבית‬
v. intr. - ‮כיכב‬
adj. - ‮מפורסם, בולט‬

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