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Astral Weeks
Astral Weeks is Van Morrison's second album, a jazz-influenced acoustic song cycle released November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records. Recorded in New York with session jazz players under producer Lewis Merenstein, it initially failed but became a canonical classic.
Astralis
Astralis: Danish esports organization founded 2016, famous for its four-Major Counter-Strike dynasty (Atlanta, Krakow, London, Berlin), first esports IPO (2019, ASTGRP), later acquired by Fusion Esports Group in 2025.
Astralwerks
Astralwerks is an American electronic and dance music record label founded in July 1993 by Brian Long at Caroline Records in New York, now a Universal Music Group imprint under Capitol Music Group in Los Angeles, home to Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Chris Lake, and Duke Dumont.
Astrana Health
Astrana Health, formerly Apollo Medical Holdings, is a physician-centric, risk-bearing healthcare company headquartered in Alhambra, California, with over 20,000 contracted physicians and about 1.6 million patients.
Astranis Space Technologies
Astranis Space Technologies is a San Francisco company founded in 2015 by John Gedmark and Ryan McLinko that builds and operates small, dedicated geostationary communications satellites called MicroGEO.
Astrarium
An astrarium is a weight-driven mechanical planetary clock modeling the medieval geocentric heavens. Giovanni de' Dondi's astrarium, completed around 1364, was the first, and the original is now lost.
Astravets nuclear power plant
The Astravets nuclear power plant, also called the Belarusian NPP or Ostrovets plant, is Belarus's first nuclear power station, built by Russia's Rosatom near Astravets about 40 kilometers from Vilnius.
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca PLC, Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed 6 April 1999 by the Astra AB and Zeneca merger, headquartered in Cambridge, UK; 2025 revenue $58.7 billion, key drugs Farxiga, Tagrisso, Imfinzi, $80 billion 2030 ambition.
Astrea Rupes
Astrea Rupes is a 178-km lobate scarp (thrust-fault cliff) on Mercury at 20.31°S, 244.15°W, IAU-approved December 2, 2022 and named for the Italian research vessel Astrea.
Astri Aas-Hansen
Astri Aas-Hansen is a Norwegian Labour Party politician serving as Minister of Justice and Public Security, responsible for the Schengen cooperation and representing Norway among EU and Schengen justice and interior ministers.
ASTRI-Horn
ASTRI-Horn is an Italian prototype Cherenkov telescope on Mount Etna, Sicily, the first to use a dual-mirror design, built by INAF for the Cherenkov Telescope Array.
Astribot
Astribot (星尘智能) is a Shenzhen AI robotics company founded by Lai Jie in December 2022, known for its cable-driven, wheeled humanoid robot, the Astribot S1.
ASTRID (reactor)
ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) was a planned French sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor of about 600 MWe, developed by the CEA from 2010 until its cancellation in 2019.
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, also Astrid Berges Frisbey, French-Spanish actress and model born 1986 in Barcelona; known as Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Sofi in I Origins, the Mage in King Arthur, and Chopard Trophy winner at Cannes 2011.
Astrid family
Astrid family: C-complex middle main-belt asteroid family around 1128 Astrid, about 140 Myr old, 489 HCM members, crab-like inclination spread from the s−sC secular resonance with Ceres.
Astrid Kirchherr
Astrid Kirchherr (1938–2020) was a German photographer from Hamburg best known for her stark black-and-white portraits of the Beatles in Hamburg in the early 1960s, and for her engagement to their original bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe.
Astrid Kumbernuss
Astrid Kumbernuss, born 1970 in Grevesmühlen, is a retired German shot putter: 1996 Olympic champion, 2000 Olympic bronze, three straight world titles 1995-1999, personal best 21.22 m, coached by Dieter Kollark at SC Neubrandenburg.
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), Swedish children's author, creator of Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump), Emil i Lönneberga, and Ronia the Robber's Daughter; 34 chapter books and 41 picture books, translated into over 100 languages, head of children's fiction at Rabén & Sjögren 1946–1970.
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is an international prize established by the Swedish government in 2002 for children's and young adult literature, worth five million Swedish kronor.
Astrid of Sweden
Astrid of Sweden, known as Queen Astrid of Belgium, was the wife of King Leopold III and queen from 1934 until her 1935 death in a car accident.
Astrid Roemer
Astrid Roemer (1947–2026) was a Surinamese-Dutch writer of novels, poetry, and drama, best known for her decolonization trilogy Onmogelijk moederland and as the first Surinamese winner of Dutch literature's highest awards.
Astrid S
Astrid S (Astrid Smeplass, born 1996, Berkåk, Norway) is a Norwegian pop and R&B singer-songwriter who finished fifth on Idol 2013, won Spellemann awards for 2016 and 2017, released the albums Leave It Beautiful (2020) and Joyride (2024), and acts in Tre nøtter til Askepott.
Astrid Slind
Astrid Øyre Slind (born 1988, Oppdal) is a Norwegian cross-country skier, Olympic and world relay champion, five-time World Cup winner, and former Ski Classics marathon specialist who debuted at the Olympics at 37 in 2026.
Astrid Strauß
Astrid Strauß (born 1968), East German freestyle swimmer; 1988 Olympic 800 m silver, 1986 world champion (800 m, 4x200 m relay), eight-time European champion, career ended by a 1992 doping ban.
Astrid Tollerud
Astrid Rolandzen Tollerud, Norwegian race walker (Oslo IL), born 31 March 1907; set 27:28.0 for the 5000 m walk in Oslo on 24 October 1937, listed in the IAAF women's 5000 m world record progression.
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier (IL Heming, Oslo), born 1987: 2018 Olympic relay gold, 2007 world sprint champion, ten World Championship medals, six World Cup wins, later physician and IOC athletes' commission member 2021-2026.
Astrid Veillon
Astrid Veillon (born 1971, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon) is a French actress, director, and playwright, known as Commissaire Laurence Delage in Quai n°1 and Commandante Léa Soler in France 3's Tandem (2016–2024), whose final TV movie she directed.
Astringent
Astringent: a substance that contracts skin or mucous membranes by precipitating surface proteins (Latin adstringere). Includes aluminum salts like Burow's solution, tannins, and the trigeminal oral sensation astringency.
Astrionics
Astrionics is the electronics discipline of spacecraft: the onboard avionics systems, components, instruments, and functional elements that allow a spacecraft to operate and fulfill its mission.
Astris
Astris, short for Ariane Smart Transfer and Release In-orbit Ship, is an ESA kick stage for Ariane 6 that moves payloads between orbits, including geostationary and lunar ones.