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Stella van Gils
Stella van Gils is a retired Dutch field hockey midfielder who won Olympic gold as a reserve and the 2021 European Championship with the Netherlands.
Stella Wang
Stella Wang is a Managing Director at Matrix Partners China, a Beijing venture firm, investing in Consumer and Media & Entertainment after earlier work at SIG China Venture Fund.
Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård (born 1951, Gothenburg) is a Swedish actor of Bombi Bitt och jag, Breaking the Waves, Good Will Hunting, Mamma Mia!, Dune, Chernobyl, and Andor fame; father of actors Alexander, Bill, and Gustaf; first Oscar-nominated for Sentimental Value.
Stellantis
Stellantis N.V. is a Dutch-registered multinational automaker formed by the 2021 merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe PSA, owning brands like Jeep, Fiat, and Peugeot.
Stellar (group)
Stellar (스텔라) was a South Korean girl group formed by The Entertainment Pascal, active from 2011 to 2018 and best known for the provocative 'Marionette', 'Vibrato', and 'Sting' era.
Stellar (payment network)
Stellar is an open global payment network and distributed ledger that transfers digital money anywhere in seconds, using its native token, the lumen (XLM), for fees.
Stellar atmosphere
A stellar atmosphere is the outermost layer of a star, where its light escapes and the dark spectral lines that reveal temperature and composition form.
Stellar Awards
The Stellar Awards are an annual American awards show honoring excellence in gospel music, founded in 1985 by Don Jackson and the longest-running African American gospel music awards program on television.
Stellar black hole
A stellar black hole, also called a stellar-mass black hole, is a black hole of roughly 3 to dozens of solar masses formed by the collapse of a massive star.
Stellar Blade (스텔라 블레이드)
Stellar Blade (스텔라 블레이드), formerly Project EVE, is a 2024 action-adventure by Korean studio Shift Up, published by Sony for PS5 and later PC. Known for parry-driven combat, Keiichi Okabe's soundtrack, 3 million-plus sales, and outfit-censorship controversy.
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain is Shift Up's upcoming sequel to Stellar Blade, announced at Summer Game Fest June 5, 2026. New heroine Evie fights with transforming gauntlets; parry-dodge combat returns; self-published, multiplatform, release expected 2027.
Stellar classification
Stellar classification, or spectral classification, sorts stars into groups by their spectra, chiefly the temperature sequence O B A F G K M, ordered from hottest to coolest.
Stellar collision
A stellar collision, also called a stellar merger, is when two stars or a star and a compact remnant strike each other and may merge, forming blue stragglers.
Stellar designations and names
Stellar designations and names, or stellar nomenclature, are the identifiers for individual stars: proper names like Sirius and systematic designations like Alpha Centauri or HD 209458.
Stellar dynamics
Stellar dynamics is the branch of astrophysics that studies the motions of stars and other gravitating bodies in clusters, galaxies, and galactic nuclei under mutual gravity.
Stellar encounters with the Solar System
Stellar encounters with the Solar System are close passages of other stars that gravitationally perturb Oort Cloud comets, occurring within 1 parsec about every 95,000 years.
Stellar evolution
Stellar evolution, also known as the stellar life cycle, is the sequence of changes in a star's structure and composition over its lifetime, determined chiefly by its initial mass.
Stellar Health
Stellar Health is a healthcare technology company founded in 2018 by Michael Meng that pays doctors real-time incentives for value-based care and operates its own Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization.
Stellar magnetic field
A stellar magnetic field is a magnetic field generated within or threading a star's atmosphere, produced by dynamo action or inherited earlier; it drives sunspots, flares, and magnetized winds.
Stellar mass loss
Stellar mass loss is the loss of a star's mass to its surroundings through winds, eruptions, or binary transfer, ranging widely and shaping stellar evolution and remnants.
Stellar mass–halo mass relation
The stellar mass–halo mass relation, also called the stellar-to-halo mass relation or SHMR, is the empirical link between a galaxy's stellar mass and its dark matter halo mass.
Stellar nucleosynthesis
Stellar nucleosynthesis is the formation of new chemical elements by nuclear fusion and neutron capture inside stars, powering stars and building elements up to iron and beyond.
Stellar obliquity
Stellar obliquity, also called the spin–orbit angle, is the angle between a star's rotation axis and the orbital angular momentum of its planets; the Sun's is 7.155 degrees.
Stellar occultation
Stellar occultation is an observational technique in which starlight passing behind a solar system body is analyzed, revealing atmospheric profiles and ring structure at kilometer scales.
Stellar population
A stellar population is a group of stars treated as one unit, classified since Walter Baade's 1944 work into metal-rich Population I, metal-poor Population II, and theorized Population III.
Stellar pulsation
Stellar pulsation, or stellar oscillation, is the periodic expansion and contraction of a star, producing regular brightness changes; its study through asteroseismology reveals stars' interiors.
Stellar rotation
Stellar rotation is the spinning of a star about its axis, measured from spectral line broadening and starspots; magnetized winds slowly spin stars down over their lifetimes.
Stellar stream
A stellar stream is a long, thin band of stars sharing one orbit around a galaxy, formed when gravity tears apart a star cluster or dwarf galaxy.
Stellar structure
Stellar structure is the study and modeling of a star as a self-gravitating ball of gas in equilibrium, transporting energy from its hot core to the surface atmosphere.
Stellar wind
A stellar wind is a continuous outflow of gas from a star's outer layers into interstellar space, carrying away mass and energy; every class of star loses mass this way.