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Stargate UAE

Stargate UAE is a 1-gigawatt artificial intelligence compute cluster announced in May 2025, built by Abu Dhabi's G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle within a 5-gigawatt UAE–US AI Campus.

Stargate Universe

Stargate Universe (SGU): Canadian-American sci-fi series by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, Syfy 2009-2011, two seasons, 40 episodes. Crew stranded on the Ancient ship Destiny after the ninth chevron discovery; cancelled December 2010.

Stargate: Continuum

Stargate: Continuum is a 2008 direct-to-DVD Stargate SG-1 film written by Brad Wright, directed by Martin Wood, released July 29, 2008, in which Ba'al's 1939 time travel erases the Stargate program.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) is a direct-to-DVD MGM film, written and directed by Robert C. Cooper, that ends Stargate SG-1's Ori arc as SG-1 seeks the Alteran Ark of Truth in the Ori home galaxy.

Stargazer (aircraft)

Stargazer is a modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner, built in 1974 for Air Canada and converted in the 1990s, used to air-launch Pegasus rockets on 46 missions through 2026.

Stargazing (Myles Smith song)

Stargazing is a 2024 folk-pop single by British singer-songwriter Myles Smith, written with Jesse Fink and Peter Fenn. Released 10 May 2024 on RCA, it peaked at Number 4 in the UK, topped US Hot AC radio, and was the biggest British single of 2024.

Stargazy pie

Stargazy pie is a Cornish fish pie from Mousehole in which pilchards or sardines are baked whole under a pastry crust with their heads poking through the lid. It is tied to Tom Bawcock's Eve, 23 December, and the Ship Inn.

Stargirl (film)

Stargirl (2020 Disney+ film), Julia Hart's adaptation of Jerry Spinelli's 2000 YA novel, starring Grace VanderWaal as Stargirl Caraway; released March 13, 2020, distinct from DC's Stargirl TV series.

Stargirl (novel)

Stargirl is Jerry Spinelli's 2000 Knopf YA novel about eccentric Stargirl Caraway and narrator Leo Borlock at Mica High, Arizona, an ALA Top Ten Best Book, New York Times bestseller, with sequel Love, Stargirl and Disney+ adaptations.

Stargirl (TV series)

Stargirl, also marketed as DC's Stargirl, is an American superhero drama series created by Geoff Johns, starring Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore; it ran from 2020 to 2022.

StarHub

StarHub is a Singapore info-communications company providing mobile, broadband, entertainment, and enterprise services, the second-largest mobile operator by revenue share, incorporated in 1998 and listed on the Singapore Exchange.

Stari Grad Plain (Croatia)

Stari Grad Plain (Starogradsko polje), a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape on Hvar, Croatia, inscribed 2008: a Greek land division (chora) laid out by colonists from Paros in 384 BC and farmed with grapes and olives for 24 centuries.

Stari Most

Stari Most, also known as the Old Bridge of Mostar, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman arch bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993 and reconstructed in 2004.

Stari Prisad

Stari Prisad (Стари Присад) is an abandoned village locality in Prilep Municipality, North Macedonia, on the Babuna mountain; its 1838 church Sv. Atanas survives, and villagers relocated to Nov Prisad in 1945.

Stari Ras and Sopoćani

Stari Ras and Sopoćani, a UNESCO World Heritage serial property (1979) in Raška, southern Serbia, comprises Sopoćani Monastery, Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery, St Peter's Church, and the Medieval Town of Ras, first capital of the Serbian state under the Nemanjić dynasty.

Stariye Pesni o Glavnom

Stariye Pesni o Glavnom (Старые песни о главном) is a Russian New Year musical TV series created by Konstantin Ernst and Leonid Parfenov, broadcast from 1995 to 2001.

Starjammers

Starjammers: Marvel Comics space pirate team led by Corsair (Christopher Summers), father of Cyclops and Havok; created by Claremont and Cockrum, first appearing in X-Men #104/#107 (1977); foes of the Shi'ar Empire and X-Men allies.

STARK

STARK, also known as STARK Defence GmbH or SKD SE, is a Berlin defense-technology company founded in 2024 that makes AI-enabled unmanned systems, including the Virtus loitering munition.

Stark (シュタルク) (Frieren)

Stark (シュタルク) is the human warrior and Eisen's disciple who joins Frieren and Fern as vanguard in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End; axe fighter, sole survivor of a demon attack, voiced by Chiaki Kobayashi.

Stark broadening

Stark broadening is the widening and shifting of spectral lines of atoms in a plasma, caused by electric microfields from electrons and ions, widely used for plasma diagnostics.

Stark County, Ohio, United States

Stark County, Ohio: northeastern Ohio county with county seat Canton; 374,853 residents (2020 census); three-division government; cities include Alliance, Massillon, and North Canton.

Stark effect

The Stark effect, also called the Stark shift, is the splitting of atomic spectral lines by an external electric field, first observed by Johannes Stark in 1913.

Stark Flight Lab

Stark Flight Lab is an upcoming Marvel Avengers Campus attraction at Disney California Adventure, announced at D23 in 2024 with Avengers Infinity Defense, opening 2028; riders in two-person pods are grabbed by a robotic arm for high-speed flight maneuvers with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.

Stark Industries

Stark Industries, also known as Stark International, Stark Enterprises, Stark Resilient, and Stark Unlimited, is the fictional Marvel Comics conglomerate founded by Howard Stark and run by Tony Stark (Iron Man), first appearing in Tales of Suspense #40 and once the Marvel Universe's leading weapons maker.

Stark Law

Stark Law, formally Section 1877 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395nn), the U.S. federal physician self-referral law barring Medicare referrals for designated health services to entities with which the physician or immediate family has a financial relationship, unless an exception applies; distinct from the criminal Anti-Kickback Statute.

Stark many-body localization

Stark many-body localization is a form of many-body localization where a strong linear potential gradient localizes particles in a disorder-free quantum system, halting thermalization; it was proposed in 2019.

Stark Raving Dad

"Stark Raving Dad" (S3E1, The Simpsons, September 19, 1991, production code 7F24): Homer meets Leon Kompowsky, voiced by Michael Jackson as "John Jay Smith"; written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss; pulled from all platforms in 2019 after Leaving Neverland and absent from Disney+.

Stark Sands

Stark Sands (Stark Bunker Sands, born 1978) is an American actor, a two-time Tony nominee who originated Charlie Price in Kinky Boots and Tunny in American Idiot, and starred in Generation Kill and Minority Report.

Stark spectroscopy

Stark spectroscopy is the family of spectroscopic techniques that exploit the electric-field splitting of spectral lines, named after Johannes Stark, who first observed it in 1913.

Stark–Heegner theorem

The Stark–Heegner theorem, also called the Baker–Heegner–Stark theorem, states that exactly nine imaginary quadratic fields have class number one; Heegner proved it in 1952, and Baker and Stark independently in 1966 and 1967.