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Aster (cell biology)
Aster (cell biology): star-shaped radial array of microtubules around each centrosome during animal cell division; astral microtubules position the spindle and nucleus via dynein pulling, and large embryonic asters grow by autocatalytic microtubule nucleation.
Aster (genus)
Aster (genus), Aster L. (1753), a genus of daisy-family (Asteraceae) herbs now restricted mainly to temperate Eurasia; former American asters moved to Symphyotrichum, Eurybia, and others.
Aster (missile family)
Aster is a family of European surface-to-air interceptor missiles developed by the Franco-Italian consortium Eurosam, with Aster 15 for medium and Aster 30 for long range.
Aster Aweke
Aster Aweke is an Ethiopian singer who began her career in the 1970s. She moved to Washington, D.C., in 1981, and achieved international success with her world music albums.
Astera Labs
Astera Labs is an American fabless semiconductor company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that designs connectivity chips, modules, and fabric switches for cloud and AI data centers.
Asteraceae
Asteraceae (Compositae), the sunflower or aster family, is the largest flowering plant family with 24,000–30,000 species in 1,600–1,700 genera, defined by florets packed into a capitulum, united anthers, and pappus-bearing achenes; Late Cretaceous South American origin.
Asterales
Asterales (キク目) is an order of flowering plants, about 10% of angiosperms, in the campanulid clade, with 11-12 families dominated by Asteraceae and Campanulaceae; monophyletic, of Gondwanan Late Cretaceous origin.
Astéréotypie
Astéréotypie is a French post-punk collective formed in 2010 at a medico-educational institute in Bourg-la-Reine, whose young autistic singers perform their own lyrics with professional musicians, several from Moriarty.
Asteria (singer)
Asteria (singer): stage name shared by Italian electro-pop singer-songwriter Anita Ferrari (born 1999, Bergamo, Universal Music Italia) and New Zealand-born hyperpop producer Matthew James Joines (born 2006, Warsaw), two unrelated careers.
Asteria (στερία) (mythology)
Asteria (στερία), Greek Titaness, daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, sister of Leto, mother of Hecate by Perses. Fleeing Zeus she became a quail, then the island Delos; she had no independent cult.
Asteria Aerospace
Asteria Aerospace is an Indian full-stack drone company headquartered in Bengaluru, founded in 2011, that builds unmanned aircraft and provides drone data services for defense and enterprise customers.
Asteria Regio
Asteria Regio, a 1,131 km-wide highland region (regio) on Venus at 21.6°N, 267.5°E, IAU-named 1982 for the Greek Titaness, with volcanic centers Polik-mana Mons and Kona Mons near the Beta Regio plume.
Asterids
Asterids, a major eudicot clade of flowering plants with over 80,000 species in about 100 families and 17 APG IV orders, including Asteraceae and Rubiaceae; origin dated to the Aptian (~121 Ma), fossils from the Turonian (~89 Ma).
Asterion Industrial Partners
Asterion Industrial Partners is a Madrid-based investment firm specializing in European mid-market infrastructure private equity, founded in 2018 and reporting around $10 billion in assets under management.
Asterisk
Asterisk (), from Greek asteriskos 'little star': a star-shaped typographic mark used for footnotes, omissions, birth dates, reconstructed or ungrammatical linguistic forms, wildcards, and multiplication.
Asterisk (esports)
Asterisk (AST) is an Indian esports organization based in Bengaluru, known for VALORANT Challengers South Asia teams, its Game Changers women's squad, and a 2025 Fortnite roster.
Asterisk (software)
Asterisk, also known as Asterisk PBX, is a free open-source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit for Linux, written in 1999 by Mark Spencer and used in business phone systems and call centers.
Asterism (astronomy)
An asterism is a recognizable pattern of stars that is not one of the 88 officially recognized constellations, like the Big Dipper or Summer Triangle.
Asterisms (album)
Asterisms is a 2024 five-track instrumental album by Sean Ono Lennon on John Zorn's Tzadik label, blending jazz, rock, and electronic music; not to be confused with albums by Matthew Cardinal, Asterismyth, or I, Supernova.
Asterius Linea
Asterius Linea is a 1,943-km-long linea, or dark fracture marking, on Jupiter's moon Europa, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for Europa's mythological husband after Zeus.
Asterix
Asterix (Astérix le Gaulois), French comic series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, first in Pilote 1959; Gaulish village resists Rome via magic potion; ~400 million copies, 111 languages.
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
Astérix et Obélix contre César (Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar) is Claude Zidi's 1999 French live-action comedy, the first Asterix film with actors, starring Clavier, Depardieu, and Benigni, drawing about 9 million French admissions.
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra is a 2002 French comedy film adapted from the comic album by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. It grossed over $131 million worldwide.
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom is a 2023 French live-action comedy directed by Guillaume Canet, the fifth Asterix film and the first not adapted from a comic album.
Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar
Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar (Astérix et Obélix contre César) is Claude Zidi's 1999 live-action comedy, the first live-action Asterix film, starring Clavier, Depardieu, and Benigni, a French-German-Italian co-production that grossed over $100 million.
Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight
Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight (Astérix et Obélix : Le Combat des chefs) is a 2025 Netflix five-episode animated limited series created by Alain Chabat, adapted from the Asterix album Le Combat des chefs, animated by TAT Productions in Toulouse, released April 30, 2025.
Asterix at the Olympic Games
Asterix at the Olympic Games (Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques) is a 2008 French live-action comedy directed by Thomas Langmann and Frédéric Forestier, starring Gérard Depardieu and Alain Delon.
Astérix et Obélix: L'Empire du Milieu
Astérix et Obélix: L'Empire du Milieu (Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom), 2023 French live-action comedy by Guillaume Canet, first non-album Astérix film, set in China, released 1 February 2023.
Asterix in Lusitania
Asterix in Lusitania (Astérix en Lusitanie), 41st Asterix album by Fabcaro and Didier Conrad, released 23 October 2025; the Gauls travel to Roman Portugal to save garum maker Umaminess from the lions.
Asterix the Gaul
Asterix the Gaul (Astérix le Gaulois) is the 1961 first album of the French Asterix comic series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, debuting in Pilote in 1959; it founded the indomitable Gaulish village premise and Europe's best-selling bande dessinée.