Star
Meanings and phrases
star
- indicating the most important performer or role; leading; prima; starring; stellar
star
- (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field; ace; adept; champion; sensation; maven; mavin; virtuoso; genius; hotshot; superstar; whiz; whizz; wizard; wiz
- any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
- an actor who plays a principal role; principal; lead
- a star-shaped character * used in printing; asterisk
- a performer who receives prominent billing; headliner
- a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
- the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub; star topology
star
- feature as the star
- be the star in a performance
- mark with an asterisk; asterisk
Bronze Star
- a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight); Bronze Star Medal
Bronze Star Medal
- a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight); Bronze Star
Christmas star
- tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers; poinsettia; Christmas flower; lobster plant; Mexican flameleaf; painted leaf; Euphorbia pulcherrima
Dog Star
- the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major; Sirius; Canicula; Sothis
North Star
- the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it; Polaris; pole star; polar star; polestar
North Star State
- a midwestern state; Minnesota; Gopher State; MN
Silver Star
- a United States military decoration for gallantry in action; Silver Star Medal
Silver Star Medal
- a United States military decoration for gallantry in action; Silver Star
Star Chamber
- a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments
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- a six-pointed star formed from two equilateral triangles; an emblem symbolizing Judaism; Shield of David; Magen David; Mogen David; Solomon's seal
TV star
- a star in a television show; television star
Texas star
- prairie herb with solitary lilac-colored flowers; prairia Sabbatia; Sabbatia campestris
- Texas annual with coarsely pinnatifid leaves; cultivated for its showy radiate yellow flower heads; Lindheimera texana
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- any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc; basket fish
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- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation; binary; double star
- Cygnus contains the binary star system KIC 9832227.
- ε Arietis is a binary star with two white components.
- It is a binary star; the secondary is of magnitude 7.4.
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- biennial of southwestern United States having white stems and toothed leaves that is grown for its large pale yellow flowers that open in early morning; Mentzelia livicaulis; Mentzelia laevicaulis
- any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads; button snakeroot; gayfeather; gay-feather; snakeroot
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- subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes; Amsonia tabernaemontana
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- plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green; Parnassia palustris
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- an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc; brittle-star; serpent star
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- perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers; Liatris pycnostachya
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- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation; binary star; binary
- β Capricorni is a double star also known as Dabih.
- Zeta Antliae is a wide optical double star.
- Kappa Boötis is another wide double star.
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- free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms; comatulid
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- a star who plays leading roles in the cinema; movie star
- She is the mother of martial arts film star, Donnie Yen.
- He quits and decides to turn as a film star.
- One of her early babysitters was film star Gloria Swanson.
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- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun); giant
- Marginally fainter is Gamma Apodis, another ageing giant star.
- The main star is classified as a giant star with an orange tint.
- This is a red giant star with a stellar classification of M0 III.
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- perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay; Cynodon plectostachyum
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- California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers; golden stars; Bloomeria crocea
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- a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky; daystar; Phosphorus; Lucifer
- These are colours associated with Venus as an evening and morning star.
- The raptor comes at dawn, when the planet Jupiter (the "morning star") is seen in the sky.
- In addition to representing the morning star, the Eye can also be equated with the star Sothis (Sirius).
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- a star who plays leading roles in the cinema; film star
- Temptation") with Mexican movie star Lucía Méndez.
- I don't want to be a big movie star.
- The owner of the dog is famous movie star Alex Young (Teri Polo).
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- a system of three or more stars associated by gravity
- α Capricorni is a multiple star.
- It is a multiple star approximately away with a combined apparent magnitude of 3.33.
- V831 Centauri V831 Centauri is a multiple star system in the constellation Centaurus.
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- a star that has collapsed under its own gravity; it is composed of neutrons
- After a supernova explosion, a neutron star may be left behind.
- A neutron star with a quark matter core is often called a hybrid star.
- Neutron star merger A neutron star merger is a type of stellar collision.
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- singer of lead role in an opera; operatic star
- Barros had the opportunity to become an international opera star.
- In 2008, another female opera star, Diana Damrau, released a CD with seven Salieri coloratura arias.
- Lee was briefly married to Cantonese opera star, Siu Chung-kwan (d. 2005), with whom she had a daughter.
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- the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it; Polaris; North Star; pole star; polestar
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- the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it; Polaris; North Star; polar star; polestar
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- plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta; Lithophragma parviflorum
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- a small, old, relatively cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter; red dwarf
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- a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun; red giant
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- a famous singer of rock music
- She was touted as an "up and coming rock star".
- It had never occurred to her that a woman could be a rock star.
- In 2016, "Rolling Stone" proclaimed Bowie "the greatest rock star ever".
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- echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk; starfish
- This caused the sea star to move off.
- The margin of the sea star, which is its outline, is an orange color.
- The margined sea star ("Astropecten articulatus") is a well known molluscivore.
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- an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc; brittle star; brittle-star
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- a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode; meteor
- The studio was considered a "New Economy shooting star".
- Livery was blue with gold lining and shooting star logo.
- As a shooting star passes, Sam makes a wish that he can touch the moon.
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- anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine; Chinese anise; star aniseed
- small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative; Chinese anise; Illicium verum
- small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant; Illicium anisatum
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- anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine; Chinese anise; star anise
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- evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides; caimito; Chrysophyllum cainito
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- rhizomatous begonia having leaves with pointed lobes suggestive of stars and pink flowers; star-leaf begonia; Begonia heracleifolia
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- a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon; astrology
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- a steel rock drill with a star-shaped point that is used for making holes in stones or masonry; it is operated by hitting the end with a hammer while rotating it between blows
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- an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel; Scleroderma flavidium
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- deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert; carambola
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- trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India; Bermuda grass; devil grass; Bahama grass; kweek; doob; scutch grass; Cynodon dactylon
- any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic; colicroot; colic root; crow corn; unicorn root
- any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America
- perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill; windmill grass; creeping windmill grass; Chloris truncata
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- annual herb having scarlet flowers; the eastern United States; red morning-glory; Ipomoea coccinea
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- evergreen Chinese woody climber with shiny dark green leaves and intensely fragrant white flowers; confederate jasmine; Trachelospermum jasminoides
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- deciduous shrubby magnolia from Japan having fragrant white starlike flowers blooming before leaves unfold; grown as an ornamental in United States; Magnolia stellata
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- any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisylike flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage; cape marigold; sun marigold
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- a sapphire that when cut shows a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure
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- small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe; starry saxifrage; Saxifraga stellaris
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- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided; sign of the zodiac; sign; mansion; house; planetary house
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- small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana; elegant cat's ears; Calochortus elegans
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- a star in a television show; TV star
- He was the first husband of Oscar-winning film and television star Donna Reed.
- The motion picture star is at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard, the television star is on 1718 Vine Street.
- Fujiwara once hosted a sport program, called "SRS", by Fuji Television with television star Masashi Tashiro.
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- a star that varies noticeably in brightness; variable
- It has the variable star designation AE Ceti.
- Beta Doradus is a notably bright Cepheid variable star.
- It is a suspected Beta Cephei variable star.
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- grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms; mud plantain; Heteranthera dubia
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- California perennial herb cultivated for its racemose white flowers with widely spreading petals; sometimes placed in genus Tellima; Lithophragma affine; Lithophragma affinis; Tellima affinis
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- The show featured Warren Clarke as a guest star.
- In 1979, he was a guest star on the TV series "Taxi".
- He returned to the show during the fifth season as a guest star.
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- Cygnus contains the binary star system KIC 9832227.
- He comes from the Omega Centauri star system.
- Normally this star system has a visual magnitude of 2.1.
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- This was also pop star Cris Villonco's film debut.
- Captain of The 100 is pop star Ronan Keating.
- Idan Raichel is a pop star and household name in Israel.
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- DatPiff gave the mixtape a 4.5 star rating out of 5.
- The Great Sasuke a four-and-three-quarter star rating.
- CNET gave Rainmeter a 4 out of 5 star rating.
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- The website Vashtie has described her as "a rising star"
- Jafta was seen by some as a "rising star".
- Journalism has lost a rising star."
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- He was a star player on the Magruder High School basketball team.
- Khushi Ram quickly gained popularity and became a star player in India.
- The Aussies' star player Justin "jks" Savage only had 9 kills in the affair.
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- A five star review in "Q" described the album as "incendiary".
- The album also received a four (out of five) star review in Mojo.
- Jason Birchmeier from the online music guide AllMusic gave "Para Olvidarte de Mí" a 2 out of 5 star review.
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- DDO 190 still experiences some active star formation.
- This gives a star formation rate of about 1.5–3 stars per year.
- These cold, dense cores are the sites of future star formation.
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- The team had many star players, including Carolina Morace.
- He was one of the star players sold to the St. Louis Browns before the 1899 season.
- VG.Flash struggled as one of its star players YuanZhang "Attacker" Sheng was injured.
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- Cygnus contains the binary star system KIC 9832227.
- With high likelihood (>95%), this is a binary star system.
- This is most likely a binary star system.
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- It is an A-type main sequence star of class A8V.
- Gomeisa is a blue-white main sequence star.
- A yellow-white main sequence star, it has a white dwarf companion.
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- It is an A-type main sequence star of class A8V.
- Gomeisa is a blue-white main sequence star.
- A yellow-white main sequence star, it has a white dwarf companion.
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- "S-42" earned one battle star during World War II.
- LST-512 received one battle star for World War II Service.
- "LST-517" received one battle star for World War II service.
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- Two star systems have been found to have planets.
- Seven star systems have been found to have planets.
- Six star systems have been found to have exoplanets.
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- The white star in the triangle stands for independence.
- Challacombe was a bay horse with a white star bred by F W Dunn.
- To the unaided eye, it appears to be a white star of magnitude 3.6.
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- K2-148b has a tight orbit around its host star.
- The exoplanet orbits WASP-39, its host star, every 4 days.
- The exoplanet orbits WASP-31, its host star, every 3.4 days.
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- Barrymore is set to star in Jamie Babbit's film "The Stand-In".
- Quincy Fouse, Jenny Boyd, Kaylee Bryant, and Aria Shahghasemi were also set to star.
- In June, it was announced that she was set to star in the comedy-drama film "Sun Dogs".
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- Bobby Beausoleil was an actor and porn star.
- Soap leaves the NYPD, moves to Los Angeles and becomes a porn star.
- A "pornographic film actor" or "porn star" performs in pornographic films.
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- She was married to football star Ronaldo from April 1999 to September 2003.
- Gus - A high school football star who had plans to participate in the army.
- He excelled in track and field, but was also a football star in high school.
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- Dimaunahan is married to former child star Jane Zaleta.
- Born March 20, 1923, Fellows became a child star in the 1930s.
- Following the film's public success, Lynen became the child star of French cinema.
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- In 1935, the Soviets installed a red star on top of the tower.
- To beat the game entirely, one must collect each level's red star.
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- Although a communist, Ira became a star in radio theater.
- In June 1942, the film became a star vehicle for George Raft.
- In 1910, Karnabatt became a star contributor to the daily "Seara".
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- The all star team was voted by the Chinese press.
- He was a three time CFL all star.
- He played eight seasons for Philadelphia, and was an all star three times.
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- HR 244 HR 244 is a single star in the constellation Cassiopeia.
- 6 Ceti 6 Ceti is a single star in the equatorial constellation of Cetus.
- 15 Cygni 15 Cygni is a single star in the northern constellation Cygnus.
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- "The Guardian" has described him as "a new star of the blogosphere."
- In order to keep their new star, Tan's Film spent a large amount of money.
- In 1941, exhibitors voted her the third-most popular new star in Hollywood.
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- α Arietis, called Hamal, is the brightest star in Aries.
- Alpha Cygni, called Deneb, is the brightest star in Cygnus.
- (Currently, the brightest star is Sirius at magnitude −1.46.)
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- On the box itself, a large gold star was present.
- One gold star marks each patrol completed.
- A gold star tops the tree.
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- In 1995, Costas received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
- Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.
- Marshall received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
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- Gliese 674 is a nearby red dwarf star with a planet.
- K2-148b orbits a late-K dwarf star known as K2-148, or EPIC 220194974.
- The visible companion is a red dwarf star with a class in the range M2-5V.
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- The host star, HD 128311, is a K0V-type star located 16.6 parsecs from Earth.
- Eta Apodis is a white main sequence star located 140.8 ± 0.9 light-years distant.
- HD 206610, a K0 star located 194 parsecs from Earth, is host to one planet, HD 206610 b.
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- Shaw appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" where he met NBA basketball star Dwyane Wade.
- DiLeo was a basketball star at Cinnaminson High School in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey.
- The basketball star broke down in tears live on CNN as he recounted the hostility he faced for meeting Kim Jong-un.
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- Hotel Alba Caracas The Hotel Alba Caracas is the first 5 star hotel in Venezuela.
- The town boasts a four star hotel, a golf course, an airport, and a "welcome arch".
- The Centaurus originally included a 7 star hotel, construction of which is yet to begin.
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- By the end of the 2000–01 season, the Rangers had landed a lot of star power.
- Bryant's star power and her extreme views were highlighted in national news stories.
- As a return to British cinema, Goss has made a decent choice with IWAH and really lends some star power to the movie.
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- Warner was enthusiastic, and began the task of casting a major star to front the project.
- Because of this, every major star in the 1960s and 1970s wished to wrestle in the Northwest.
- Igor Kio was a major star of Russian entertainment — not in the least for his tumultuous private life.
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- His older brother Nathan Carter is a well-known Irish country and folk music star.
- It was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a nationally known country music star.
- Australian music star John Williamson sang "True Blue", which was Irwin's favourite song.
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- Her first star work was "Un sueño de cristal".
- The feast begins with the appearance of the first star.
- The Wigilia feast begins at the appearance of the first star.
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- A new young star was expected to emerge.
- A very young star, it is still accumulating interstellar material.
- NGC 3256 provides a nearby template for studying the properties of young star clusters in tidal tails.
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- The star cluster of Messier 30 is best observed around August.
- Simbad uses NGC 2174 for the nebula and NGC 2175 for the star cluster.
- This star cluster is estimated to be around two and a half million years old.
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- Its parent star has 88% less volume than the Sun.
- As of May 25, 2013 it is 110 AU from its parent star.
- It orbits its parent star every 3.36 days at a distance of 0.042 astronomical units (AU).
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- The book had a four and a half star out of 5 score on customer reviews in Amazon in January 2018.
- Writing for "The Indian Express" Shubhra Gupta gives it one and half star out of five and says, ""Kalank" doesn’t really lift off the screen.
- Rajeev Masand of CNN IBN gave it a two and a half star rating explaining "a stronger male lead and some tighter editing might have turned this into a crackling film.
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- WASP-79b WASP-79b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star CD-30 1812.
- It orbits at 9 AU from Beta Pictoris (close to the plane of the debris disk orbiting the star) with a low eccentricity and a period of 20–21 years.
- TrES-2b TrES-2b (TrES-2 or Kepler-1b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02811 located 750 light years away from the Solar System.
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- A substellar companion was discovered orbiting the primary star in 2007 using the radial velocity method.
- Both planets may have accreted additional mass when the primary star lost material during its red giant phase.
- The primary star is a Beta Cephei variable star with rapid brightness changes of about a hundredth of a magnitude.
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- The spiral is suspected to be caused by an unseen companion star.
- The companion star was discovered in 1984 based upon its ultraviolet spectrum.
- It is a spectroscopic binary star, one in which the companion star is only known through analysis of the spectra.
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- The star is radiating 286 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,980 K.
- The star is radiating 155 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,269 K.
- This star is radiating 3.12 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,346 K.
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- He specializes in the study of star clusters and galaxies.
- Several galaxies and star clusters are contained within Capricornus.
- NGC 5253 includes a large nebula and at least 12 large star clusters.
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- Ferriols was a former star in the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA).
- While playing for the Athletics, Reiter was a teammate of Hawley Pierce, a former star for the Carlisle Indian School.
- In 2010, Machida Zelvia appointed Naoki Soma, a former star player who played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, as its new head coach.
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- Throughout "House"s run, six of the main actors have received star billing.
- At Universal, he often received star billing for what amounted to a supporting part.
- A total of ten actors received star billing in the first season, with numerous supporting roles.
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- He said, ‘You made me a big star in my country.’ We’ve had a nice bond”.
- So in this scene, Bruce Lee is essentially calling out a stuntman and getting him fired because he's the big star."
- Some flag makers arranged the stars into one big star, in a circle or in rows and some replaced a state's star with its initial.
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- He was a star athlete at Kings Mountain High School.
- Cowan grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and was a star athlete at the city's North Side High School.
- Whitmore starred as idealistic attorney Abraham Lincoln Jones, who had been a star athlete in college.
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- In December 2006, she was finally promoted to be top star.
- Later that month, top star Genichiro Tenryu abruptly departed AJPW.
- The film "Beau Brummel" also made John Barrymore a top star at the studio as well.
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- This is a B-type subgiant star with a stellar classification of B1.5 IV.
- This star has a classification of K0 IV, matching a K-type subgiant star.
- Unlike α, β Caeli is a subgiant star, slightly evolved from the main sequence.
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- Kerns used to play with the Dreams’ star quarterback Eddie Brennan in high school.
- In the early 1970s, Fong was a star quarterback for the Sunnyvale High School football team.
- The Bears also lost star quarterback Joey Sternaman, who joined the Chicago Bulls of the AFL.
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- Including them, the film consists of a large star cast.
- The star cast held a candlelight vigil on 14 August 2012.
- The star cast also visited theatres upon the release of the film.
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- central star will shrink and grow hotter
- The central star is more than 12,000 times as luminous as the Sun.
- Its central star is of magnitude 11.4, an unusually bright specimen.