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Astoria (turkey)
Astoria, also called Rosie, is a wild turkey hen (Meleagris gallopavo) famous in New York City; first seen in Queens' Astoria neighborhood in April 2024, she crossed to Manhattan, lived on Roosevelt Island, and since May 2025 lives in The Battery.
Astoria generating station
The Astoria generating station is a natural gas and oil fired power plant in Astoria, Queens, on New York City's East River, built by Consolidated Edison and sold in 1999.
Astoria, Oregon
Astoria is a port city of nearly 10,000 in northwestern Oregon at the mouth of the Columbia River, the first permanent United States settlement on the Pacific coast.
Astoria, Queens
Astoria is a neighborhood in northwest Queens, New York City, on the East River, also called Little Egypt for its Arab commercial streets. Named for John Jacob Astor, it is known for its Greek community, Kaufman Astoria Studios, and immigrant diversity.
Astra (satellite family)
Astra is a family of geostationary communications satellites operated by Luxembourg's SES, launched since 1988 and carrying direct-to-home TV and radio across Europe from fixed orbital positions such as 19.2° East.
Astra (अस्त्र) (missile)
Astra (अस्त्र) is India's first indigenously developed beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, designed by DRDO and built by Bharat Dynamics, with an 80 to 110 km range and service on the Su-30 MKI.
Astra (अस्त्र) (weapon)
Astra (अस्त्र) is the Sanskrit term for a thrown or missile weapon, distinct from the handheld shastra; in the Ramayana and Mahabharata it also denotes divine weapons (divyastra) such as the Brahmastra, released by mantra.
Astra 19.2°E
Astra 19.2°E, also called Astra 1, is the orbital position used by Luxembourg operator SES for its co-located Astra satellites, delivering over 850 TV channels across Europe.
Astra 1A
Astra 1A was a Luxembourgish geostationary communications satellite launched in December 1988 for SES, the first satellite of the Astra fleet and Europe's first high-power direct-to-home TV satellite.
Astra 28.2°E
Astra 28.2°E is a geostationary orbital position operated by SES that serves as the principal satellite TV position for the United Kingdom and Ireland, carrying Sky and Freesat.
Astra Casino
Astra Casino (Астра Казино) is a Novomatic Group casino brand in North Macedonia with 40+ venues in Skopje, Bogovinje, Tetovo, Ohrid and other cities, operated by MASTERBET DOOEL Skopje; distinct from the dissolved UK company Astra Casino Gaming (One) Ltd.
Astra International
Astra International is an Indonesian diversified conglomerate founded in 1957 by William Soeryadjaya and built around vehicle assembly, distribution, and financing, controlled since 2000 by Jardine Cycle & Carriage.
Astra Kulturhaus
The Astra Kulturhaus is a concert and party venue on the RAW-Gelände in Berlin-Friedrichshain, opened in 2009 in a former East German railway cultural center with room for 1,500 people.
ASTRA-associated protein 1
ASTRA-associated protein 1 (Asa1, ASA1/YPR085C) is a 443-amino-acid WD-repeat protein of budding yeast, a subunit of the seven-subunit ASTRA chromatin-remodeling complex and a TTT-complex partner that stabilizes PIKKs such as Tel1, Mec1, and Tor1; asa1 mutants show short telomeres and rapamycin sensitivity.
Astraea
Astraea (Greek Ἀστραία, Astraia) is the Greek virgin-goddess of justice, daughter of Zeus and Themis or of Astraeus and Eos, who fled earth's degenerate ages and became the constellation Virgo, identified with Dike and prophesied by Virgil to return.
Astraea (nuclear warhead)
Astraea, designated A21/Mk7, is the UK's replacement nuclear warhead program led by AWE to succeed the Mk4A on Trident missiles, entering service around the late 2030s.
Astraeus (fungus)
Astraeus, the false earthstars, is a genus of gasteroid Boletales fungi (Diplocystidiaceae) whose hygroscopic rays open and close with humidity; type species A. hygrometricus, distinct from Geastrum, ectomycorrhizal, edible, uncultivatable.
Astraeus (στραῖος)
Astraeus (Ἀστραῖος, Astraios), Greek Titan god of stars and astrology, son of Crius and Eurybia, husband of Eos the Dawn, and father of the winds Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus (and Eurus), the morning star, and the stars.
Astraeus hygrometricus
Astraeus hygrometricus, the barometer or hygroscopic earthstar (basionym Geastrum hygrometricum), is a Boletales fungus whose hygroscopic rays open in rain and close in drought; molecular work shows it is a complex of cryptic species.
Astragalus gummifer
Astragalus gummifer (goat's thorn, geven) is a spiny Fabaceae subshrub native to Türkiye, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, the species usually cited as the source of gum tragacanth (E 413), used as an emulsifier and thickener.
Astrakhan (Астрахань)
Astrakhan (Астрахань; Ḥāǰǰī Tarḵān) is a Russian city on the Volga about 100 km from the Caspian Sea, capital of Astrakhan Oblast. Former khanate capital annexed by Russia in 1556; major Caspian port, caviar, shipbuilding, and North-South corridor hub.
Astrakhan gas field
The Astrakhan gas field is a giant gas-condensate field in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, 50–80 km north of the city of Astrakhan, known for exceptionally high hydrogen sulfide content.
Astrakhan Uprising
The Astrakhan Uprising (Астраханское восстание) was an armed revolt of streltsy, soldiers, and townspeople against Peter I's taxes and regulations, begun in July 1705 and crushed in March 1706.
Astrakhan uprising of 1670–1671
The Astrakhan uprising of 1670–1671 (Астраханское восстание) was the seizure and hold of Astrakhan by Stepan Razin's rebels from June 1670 until government troops retook the city in November 1671.
Astrakhanid dynasty
The Astrakhanid dynasty, also known as the Janids or Ashtarkhanids, was a line of Genghisid khans that ruled the Khanate of Bukhara in Central Asia from 1599 to 1747.
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve (Астраханский биосферный заповедник), a UNESCO MAB site since 1984 in the Volga delta, Russia; founded 11 April 1919 as the first Soviet zapovednik, a Ramsar wetland hosting up to 750,000 waterfowl.
Astral body
Astral body: a subtle-body concept in Theosophy and derived occult systems, used by Blavatsky for the linga-sarira double and by Besant and Leadbeater for the emotional body (kama-rupa), with roots in Hindu subtle-body ideas.
Astral Chain
Astral Chain is a 2019 action-adventure game by PlatinumGames, published by Nintendo for the Switch on August 30, 2019, where an officer and a tethered Legion fight extradimensional chimeras in a near-future megacity.
Astral plane
The astral plane, also called the astral realm or astral world, is a non-physical dimension in esoteric philosophy where dreams, emotions, and out-of-body travel are said to take place.
Astral projection
Astral projection, also called astral travel, is the esoteric practice of deliberately leaving one's body, which mainstream psychology classifies as an out-of-body experience linked to the brain's temporo-parietal junction.