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Stargardt disease
Stargardt disease (STGD1, fundus flavimaculatus), also called Stargardt macular degeneration or juvenile macular degeneration, is an inherited ABCA4-related retinal dystrophy causing childhood-onset central vision loss from lipofuscin buildup in the macula, with no approved treatment.
Stargate
Stargate is a military science fiction franchise begun by the 1994 Emmerich-Devlin film and expanded through Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007, 214 episodes), Atlantis, Universe, films, and novels; Amazon's 2025 revival series was canceled in June 2026.
Stargate
Stargate is an AI data-center company announced in January 2025 by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, which intends to invest $500 billion over four years, starting in Abilene, Texas.
Stargate (1981 video game)
Stargate, also known as Defender II, is a 1981 arcade shooter by Williams Electronics, the sequel to Defender, designed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar.
Stargate (device)
Stargate (also Astria Porta, Chappa'ai): fictional ring device built by the Ancients in the Stargate franchise, creating one-way wormholes between gates; naquadah ring, 39 glyphs, nine chevrons, 38-minute limit.
Stargate (film)
Stargate is a 1994 science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich and co-written with Dean Devlin, starring Kurt Russell, James Spader, and Jaye Davidson. It grossed $196.6 million worldwide and launched the Stargate franchise, including Stargate SG-1.
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Atlantis (SGA) is a Canadian-American sci-fi series created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, a Stargate SG-1 spin-off that ran 2004-2009, following an Earth expedition to the Ancient city of Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy against the Wraith.
Stargate LLC
Stargate LLC is a Delaware joint venture announced at the White House in January 2025, intending to invest $500 billion over four years in AI infrastructure for OpenAI.
Stargate Origins
Stargate Origins is a 2018 MGM science-fiction web miniseries, a prequel to the 1994 Stargate film, following young Catherine Langford (Ellie Gall) rescuing her father from Nazis in 1939; ten ten-minute episodes premiered on Stargate Command and were recut as the feature Stargate Origins: Catherine.
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007), also called SG-1, is a Canadian-American military sci-fi TV series by Glassner and Wright, spun off from the 1994 Stargate film; ten seasons, 214 episodes, airing on Showtime then Sci Fi, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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.