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Star 80
Star 80 (1983) is Bob Fosse's final film, a biographical drama starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts as Dorothy Stratten and Paul Snider, whose 1980 murder-suicide it dramatizes; released by Warner Bros., it earned Roberts a Golden Globe nomination.
Star Academy (music)
Star Academy, nicknamed Star Ac', is a French TF1 music talent show running since 2001, in which young singers train in a château and compete for a recording contract.
Star Academy Arab World (music)
Star Academy (ستار أكاديمي) was a pan-Arab reality music show on Lebanon's LBC from 2003, where viewers voted weekly; Egypt's Mohammed Attia won the first season.
Star Alliance
Star Alliance is the world's first and largest global airline alliance, launched in 1997 by five airlines led by United and Lufthansa, with 26 member airlines and over 1,150 destinations.
Star and crescent
The star and crescent is a motif of a star beside a crescent moon that serves today as a symbol of Islam and of Turkey.
Star Bandz
Star Bandz (Star Ana Flowers, born 2008) is a Chicago-area drill rapper from Sauk Village, Illinois, who broke out at 16 in 2024 with "Yea Yea," "My Baby," and the Priority Records mixtape Estrella, rapping without profanity.
Star Blazers
Star Blazers is the 1979 US syndicated English adaptation of the Japanese anime Uchū Senkan Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト), with renamed ship Argo, edited violence, and three sagas: Quest for Iscandar, Comet Empire, Bolar Wars.
Star Carr
Star Carr is an Early Mesolithic lakeside settlement in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, occupied around 9000 cal BC, famous for antler headdresses, barbed points, Britain's oldest house, and Europe's earliest carpentry.
Star catalogue
A star catalog is a systematic list of stars recording their positions on the sky and often their brightness and motion, serving as the reference framework for pointing telescopes.
Star Chamber
The Star Chamber was an English court, active from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, that sat without a jury and was abolished by Parliament in 1641.
Star Charge (星星充电) (Wanbang Digital Energy)
Star Charge (星星充电) is the EV charging brand of Wanbang Digital Energy, founded in 2014 in Changzhou, China, operating one of the country's two largest public charging networks.
Star chart
A star chart, also called a star map or sky chart, is a map of the night sky showing the positions of stars and other celestial objects.
Star Cinema
Star Cinema (ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc.) is the leading Filipino film studio, founded 1993 in Quezon City; producer of Rewind, Hello, Love, Goodbye, and most top-grossing Philippine films.
Star Citizen
Star Citizen is Cloud Imperium Games' crowdfunded multiplayer space sim by Chris Roberts, announced October 10, 2012; it passed $1 billion from 6.5 million backers in 2026 while still in alpha, with Squadron 42 delayed.
Star City (TV series)
Star City is an Apple TV alternate-history drama (2026), a spinoff of For All Mankind from Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, showing the Soviet side of the space race after a Soviet first moon landing; eight episodes, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Star City, Russia
Star City (Zvyozdny gorodok, Звёздный городок) is a closed ZATO settlement near Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, 25 km northeast of Moscow, home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center under Roscosmos, with centrifuge, hydrolab and planetarium, population roughly 5,000-7,000.
Star cluster
A star cluster, also called a stellar cluster or cluster of stars, is a group of stars born from the same gas cloud, divided into globular clusters, open clusters, and stellar associations.
Star Complex
Star Complex is a 24-hour casino in Myawaddy Township, Kayin State, Myanmar, on the Moei River across from Mae Sot, Thailand; opened late 2017, over 50 slot machines, Baccarat and Electronic Roulette, mainly Thai patrons. The name also refers to a Poipet casino precinct in Cambodia and other unrelated complexes.
Star counts
Star counts, also called star gauges, is an astronomical method that counts stars per unit area of sky to infer how stars are distributed in the Milky Way.
Star Destroyer
The Star Destroyer is a dagger-shaped capital ship used by the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Republic. It comes in various classes, including the massive Super Star Destroyer.
Star Detective Precure!
Star Detective Precure! (名探偵プリキュア！), 23rd Precure series by Toei Animation, premiered February 1, 2026 on ABC TV/TV Asahi. Anna Akechi time-travels from 2027 to 1999, becomes Cure Answer with Mikuru Kobayashi (Cure Mystic) against the Phantom Thieves.
STAR detector
The STAR detector, also called the STAR experiment, is a large particle detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider that studies the quark-gluon plasma, taking data since 1999.
Star Energy Geothermal
Star Energy Geothermal is an Indonesian geothermal energy producer operating the Wayang Windu, Salak, and Darajat fields in West Java, supplying 886 MW to the Java-Madura-Bali grid.
Star excursion balance test
The star excursion balance test (SEBT) is a clinical test of dynamic postural control: balancing on one leg while reaching maximally with the other along taped floor lines.
Star Ferry
The Star Ferry (天星小轮) is a passenger ferry service crossing Victoria Harbour between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, run under the same name since 1898.
Star formation
Star formation, also known as star birth, is the process by which dense clumps in cold molecular clouds of gas and dust collapse under gravity into stars.
Star formation efficiency
Star formation efficiency (SFE) is the fraction of interstellar gas converted into stars, only a few percent per cloud; turbulence, magnetic fields, and stellar feedback explain the inefficiency.
Star Fox
Star Fox: Nintendo sci-fi rail shooter franchise begun 1993 on SNES with Argonaut's Super FX chip; Star Fox 64 (1997) is its peak; Star Fox (2026), Velan Studios' Switch 2 remake, scored 82 on Metacritic.
Star Fox (2026 video game)
Star Fox is a 2026 rail shooter for Nintendo Switch 2: a Velan Studios-developed, Nintendo-published full remake of Star Fox 64 (1997), released June 25, 2026 at $49.99 with a 4v4 online Battle Mode.
Star Fox 2
Star Fox 2 (スターフォックス2) is Nintendo and Argonaut's 1995 SNES sequel, completed but cancelled, finally released worldwide in 2017 on the SNES Classic with real-time strategy gameplay.