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Starling House

Starling House is a 2023 Southern Gothic fantasy novel by Alix E. Harrow (Tor), a Reese's Book Club pick and NYT bestseller set in fictional Eden, Kentucky, where Opal cleans the haunted mansion of Arthur Starling.

Starling Marte

Starling Javier Marte (born 1988, Santo Domingo) is a Dominican MLB outfielder, 2x All-Star and 2x Gold Glove winner, career .284 with active-leading 361 steals and 107 outfield assists, now with the Royals.

Starlink

Starlink, also known as SpaceX Starlink, is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX that delivers broadband from thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, announced in 2015.

Starlink: Battle for Atlas

Starlink: Battle for Atlas is a 2018 Ubisoft Toronto toys-to-life open-world space action-adventure for Switch, PS4, and Xbox One; modular toy starships mount on controllers, Metacritic 74, toys discontinued April 2019.

Starlite

Starlite is an intumescent heat-resistant material invented by Maurice Ward, a British hairdresser, which survived a blowtorch in a famous 1990 TV demonstration; its secret formula died with him in 2011.

Starlux Airlines

Starlux Airlines (星宇航空) is a Taiwanese full-service international airline founded in 2018 by K.W. Chang and flying commercially since January 2020, rated a Skytrax 5-Star Airline.

Starman (film)

Starman (1984) is John Carpenter's sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen: an alien answers Voyager 2's invitation, is shot down over Wisconsin, clones a widow's dead husband, and races to Arizona. Columbia Pictures; Bridges earned an Oscar nomination.

Starman (song)

Starman is a 1972 David Bowie song, lead single of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; released 28 April 1972, it peaked at No. 10 in the UK and its Top of the Pops performance launched Bowie to stardom.

Starman (upcoming film)

Starman is a cosmic science-fiction thriller directed by Josh Wakely. It stars Brendan Fraser as Tom Adams, a technologist on a Mars mission, and Jeff Daniels.

Starmania (musical)

Starmania is a 1978/1979 French-language rock opera by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon, the first of its kind in French, starring France Gall and Daniel Balavoine, with hits like Le Blues du businessman and Le Monde est stone; revived by Thomas Jolly in 2022.

Starmer ministry

Starmer ministry: UK Labour government under Keir Starmer, July 2024 to July 2026, formed after Labour's 2024 landslide ending 14 years of Conservative rule; marked by 'rewiring the state', the 2025 immigration white paper, NHS England abolition plans, and ending with Starmer's resignation in favor of Andy Burnham.

Starmie (スターミー)

Starmie (スターミー), No. 121, the Mysterious Pokémon, is a Water/Psychic Generation I species evolving from Staryu, with base 115 Speed, Natural Cure, long Smogon OU history, and a Mega form in Pokémon Champions and Pokémon GO.

Starnberg

Starnberg is a Bavarian town at the northern end of Lake Starnberg, about 25 km southwest of Munich, first recorded in 1226, with about 23,940 residents (2023), a Wittelsbach summer palace history, and connections to Empress Sisi and King Ludwig II.

Starobesheve Raion

Starobesheve Raion (Старобешівський район) was a district in southeastern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Starobesheve on the Kalmius river; founded 1923 as Stylskyi raion, settled by Greeks from Crimea in 1779, home of Pasha Angelina's women's tractor brigade and the Starobesheve thermal power station.

Starobinsky inflation

Starobinsky inflation is a model of cosmic inflation in which the Universe's early expansion is driven by an added R² term in gravity, proposed by Alexei Starobinsky in 1980.

Starosta

A starosta is a senior local official in Central and Eastern Europe, historically presiding over castle courts, and today the elected head of a Polish county.

Starotitarovskaya 4

Starotitarovskaya 4 is an archaeological site near Starotitarovskaya on the Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar Territory, Russia, best known for 113 excavation coins from 2019–2022, mostly of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

StarPlus

StarPlus is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay TV channel, launched 1991 in English under STAR TV, converted to Hindi in July 2000 with Kaun Banega Crorepati, now owned by JioStar (Reliance).

StarPlus Energy

StarPlus Energy is a joint venture of Stellantis and Samsung SDI, formed in 2022 to build two battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana, backed by over $6.3 billion in investment and a $7.54 billion federal loan.

STARR-seq

STARR-seq (self-transcribing active regulatory region sequencing) is a massively parallel reporter assay, reported in 2013, that directly and quantitatively measures enhancer activity for millions of genomic DNA fragments at once.

Starrcade

Starrcade: annual NWA/Jim Crockett Promotions and WCW year-end supercard (1983-2000), wrestling's closed-circuit and PPV pioneer, WCW's WrestleMania equivalent; revived by WWE 2017-2019.

Starrcade (1997)

Starrcade (1997), WCW's December 28, 1997 pay-per-view at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., where Sting beat Hollywood Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship after a botched fast-count finish; WCW's highest-buyrate show, followed by a vacated title and SuperBrawl VIII rematch.

Starrcade (2018)

Starrcade (2018): WWE's second revived Starrcade event, held November 24, 2018 at U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio; a Raw-SmackDown live event with about 7,500 attendance, from which a one-hour WWE Network special aired November 25, headlined by AJ Styles beating Samoa Joe in a steel cage.

Starrcade (2019)

Starrcade 2019, WWE's third modern Starrcade, was a December 1, 2019 live event in Duluth, Georgia with a one-hour WWE Network special; the Kabuki Warriors retained the Women's Tag Titles, and it became the final Starrcade.

Starred Up

Starred Up (2013) is a British prison drama directed by David Mackenzie, written by ex-prison therapist Jonathan Asser, starring Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rupert Friend; 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Starrgirl

Starrgirl (StarrGirl) is Ayra Starr's third studio album, released August 14, 2026 on Mavin/Republic; 16 tracks, 46 minutes, featuring ZAYN, Wizkid, Rema, Leon Thomas, kwn, Theodora, and Danny Ocean.

Starro

Starro the Conqueror, DC Comics alien starfish villain created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky, debuted in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960) as the Justice League's first enemy, controlling minds via face-attaching spores; weaknesses are cold and quicklime.

StarRocks

StarRocks is an open-source MPP OLAP database and lakehouse query engine forked from Apache Doris in 2020, donated to the Linux Foundation in 2023, with a vectorized engine, cost-based optimizer, and sub-second Iceberg analytics.

Starrucca Viaduct

The Starrucca Viaduct is a stone masonry railroad viaduct completed in 1848 for the New York and Erie Railroad at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, and still carrying freight today.

Starry Eyes

Starry Eyes is a 2014 American body-horror film by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, starring Alex Essoe as an aspiring actress whose Faustian deal with a satanic Hollywood production company transforms her physically and mentally; premiered at SXSW 2014.