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Star-nosed mole
Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), semiaquatic North American mole with 22 nasal rays bearing ~25,000 Eimer's organs; fastest mammalian forager at 120 ms prey handling, tactile fovea, and underwater bubble sniffing.
Star-Spangled Banner (flag)
The Star-Spangled Banner is the 30-by-42-foot, 15-star, 15-stripe garrison flag Mary Pickersgill sewed for Fort McHenry in 1813, raised September 14, 1814, inspiring Key's poem, now at the Smithsonian NMAH.
Star, tree and hypertree network topologies
Star, tree, and hypertree topologies arrange network links in a hierarchy: stars connect devices to one central node, trees connect star groups, and hypertrees add cross-links.
Star!
Star! is a 1968 American musical biography film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews as Gertrude Lawrence, one of the era's most expensive box-office failures.
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора)
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора), also Augusta Trayana, Beroe, Vereya, Boruy, is a city in south-central Bulgaria, provincial capital, settled since the 7th millennium BC, razed in 1877 and rebuilt on a grid plan.
Stara Zagora Zoo
Stara Zagora Zoo (Зоопарк Стара Загора), Bulgaria's second zoo, founded 1957 in Ayazmoto Park; 70 decares, 400+ animals of ~80 species, CITES rescue center since 2014, renovated 2022.
Starachowice
Starachowice (formerly Wierzbnik), town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, on the Kamienna river; founded 1624, 19th-century blast furnace works, STAR truck production, Jewish cemetery of 1891 with about 400 matzevot.
Starbase
Starbase is a city in Cameron County, Texas, at the southern tip of the state near the Mexico border, incorporated in May 2025 around SpaceX's Boca Chica launch site.
Starboard Value LP
Starboard Value LP is a New York-based activist investment firm founded by Jeffrey Smith in 2011 after spinning out of Ramius, known for campaigns at Darden Restaurants, Yahoo, and Salesforce.
Starbound
Starbound is a 2D space sandbox adventure game by Chucklefish, released 22 July 2016 on PC, Mac, and Linux after a December 2013 Steam Early Access launch that sold over two million copies; known for 7 playable races, procedural planets, and extensive modding.
Starboy (album)
Starboy (album): The Weeknd's third studio album, released November 25, 2016 on XO/Republic; 18 tracks featuring Daft Punk, Lana Del Rey, Future, Kendrick Lamar; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 348,000 units; 2018 Grammy winner for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Starboy (song)
"Starboy" is a 2016 song by the Canadian singer the Weeknd featuring the French electronic duo Daft Punk, released as the lead single and title track of his album Starboy.
Starboy Charlie
Starboy Charlie (Charlie Hilder, born 2003), also Chazz "Starboy" Hall, is an American high-flying wrestler from Pacifica, California; former WWE ID Champion, West Coast Pro Champion, and one half of The Crush Boys with Titus Alexander.
Starbreeze Studios
Starbreeze Studios, Stockholm-based Swedish game developer behind the PAYDAY heist-shooter franchise (PAYDAY: The Heist, PAYDAY 2, PAYDAY 3), subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Starbreeze AB; founded 1998, reorganised 2018-2019, now a single-PAYDAY-IP studio.
Starbright (film)
Starbright is a 2026 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francesco Lucente, starring John Rhys-Davies, Diego Boneta, and Alexandra Dowling; 148 minutes, PG-13, limited release February 27, 2026, originally announced in 2010 with a different cast.
Starbuck Island
Starbuck Island, also known as Volunteer Island, is an uninhabited coral atoll in the southern Line Islands of Kiribati, once mined for guano and home to millions of sooty terns.
Starbucks
Starbucks, formally Starbucks Corporation, is an American multinational coffeehouse company headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 1971, it grew under Howard Schultz into a chain of more than 41,000 stores in 90 markets.
Starbug (autonomous underwater vehicle)
Starbug is a family of small, low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles developed at Australia's CSIRO, notable as one of the first AUVs designed with vision as its primary navigation sensor.
Starburst (candy)
Starburst, originally Opal Fruits, is Mars's chewy fruit candy: UK launch 1959/1960, US debut 1967 as M&M's Fruit Chewies, global Starburst rebrand in 1998.
Starburst Data
Starburst Data is an American data analytics company founded in Boston in 2017 that builds commercial products on Trino, the open source distributed SQL query engine.
Starburst galaxy
A starburst galaxy is a galaxy forming stars at an extremely high, temporary rate, often triggered by collisions with other galaxies; Messier 82 is the nearest example.
Starburster
"Starburster" is a 2024 song by the Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., released on 17 April 2024 as the lead single from their fourth album, Romance, on XL Recordings.
Starčevo culture
Starčevo culture: Early Neolithic farming and pottery culture of the central Balkans and Middle Danube basin, 6th millennium cal BC, first farmers of the region, related to Körös-Criş, predecessor of Vinča and LBK.
Starch
Starch (amylum): plant storage polysaccharide of amylose and amylopectin; over 50 million tons produced yearly from maize, rice, potatoes; used in food, paper, textiles, glucose, and bioplastics.
Starch gelatinization
Starch gelatinization: irreversible loss of crystalline order in starch granules heated in water, causing swelling, birefringence loss, amylose leaching, and thickening; typically 60–80 °C, measured by DSC.
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 animated science-fiction film directed by Steven Hahn and written by Jeffrey Scott, the first full-length animated feature in stereoscopic 3-D, about slave miner Orin's rebellion against Zygon.
Starchess
Starchess, Polgár's hexagonal chess variant: 37-cell hexagram board, 5 pawns plus 5 pieces per side, alternating piece-placement phase, rook vertical and bishop diagonal movement, no castling or en passant.
Starchild Records
Starchild Records (スターチャイルド) was the anime and voice-actor label of Japan's King Records, active from 1981 to 2016 and known for Neon Genesis Evangelion, before merging into King Amusement Creative in 2016.
Starcloud
Starcloud is an American aerospace startup founded in January 2024 by Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, and Adi Oltean to build orbital data centers for AI compute.
StarCoder
StarCoder is a family of open large language models for code from the BigCode project, a Hugging Face and ServiceNow collaboration, first released in May 2023.