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Astro (web framework)

Astro is an open-source, content-focused web framework created by Fred Schott and Nate Moore in 2021, rendering static HTML with interactive islands and support for React, Vue, and Svelte.

Astro (아스트로) (South Korean band)

ASTRO (아스트로) is a South Korean K-pop boy group under Fantagio that debuted February 23, 2016 with Spring Up and "Hide & Seek"; originally six members, now four after Moonbin's 2023 death and Rocky's departure, known for All Light and All Yours.

Astro Bot

Astro Bot (アストロボット) is a 2024 3D platformer by Team Asobi for PS5, released September 6, 2024; 6 galaxies, 80+ levels, 150 PlayStation cameos, Metascore 94, Game of the Year 2024.

Astro Bot (series)

Astro Bot is a platform game series by PlayStation Studio Team Asobi in Tokyo, starring Astro, a small robot mascot who debuted in the 2018 VR game Astro Bot Rescue Mission.

Astro Boy

Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom, 鉄腕アトム) is Osamu Tezuka's robot-boy manga and anime franchise, serialized 1952–1968; its 1963 Mushi Production TV series was the first 30-minute Japanese TV anime, distinct from every later remake.

Astro Boy (1963 TV series)

Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu, 鉄腕アトム), 1963–1966 Mushi Production series on Fuji TV, Japan's first 30-minute weekly TV anime, 193 monochrome episodes, 40.7% peak rating, first Japanese anime on US television.

Astro Boy (film)

Astro Boy, known in Japan as Tetsuwan Atom, is a 2009 computer-animated film directed by David Bowers, based on Osamu Tezuka's manga of a robot boy.

Astro-comb

An astro-comb, also written astrocomb, is a wavelength calibration light source for astronomical spectrographs, made by filtering a laser frequency comb through Fabry-Pérot cavities to widen line spacing.

Astro's Playroom

Astro's Playroom (ASTRO's PLAYROOM) is a free 3D platformer by Team Asobi pre-loaded on every PlayStation 5, released November 12, 2020. It showcases DualSense haptic feedback and adaptive triggers across four PS5-component-themed worlds and celebrates PlayStation history.

Astrobee

Astrobee is a free-flying robotic system aboard the International Space Station, three cube-shaped robots developed at NASA's Ames Research Center for zero-gravity research and station monitoring.

Astrobiology

Astrobiology, also called exobiology, is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. It centers on biosignatures, habitability of Mars, Europa, Enceladus, and exoplanets, and the false-positive problem in life detection.

Astroblastoma

Astroblastoma, MN1-altered: rare circumscribed glial brain tumor of children and young adults, cerebral hemispheres, perivascular pseudorosettes, MN1 fusions, defined in WHO CNS5 2021.

Astrobotic Technology

Astrobotic Technology is a space company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 2007, that builds lunar landers and rovers and is one of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers.

Astrocaryum

Astrocaryum (tucumã, murumuru palms) is a spiny Neotropical palm genus of Arecaceae, native Mexico to tropical America, about 39–40 species, Brazil richest; fruits eaten, fiber and oil used.

Astrocyte

Astrocyte: star-shaped glial cell of the CNS, named by Lenhossek in 1891; maintains brain homeostasis by clearing 80% of extracellular glutamate, feeding neurons glutamine, and reacting in disease.

Astrocytoma

Astrocytoma is a glioma that forms in star-shaped astrocyte cells of the brain and spinal cord, graded from slow-growing pilocytic tumors in children to fast-spreading glioblastoma in adults.

Astrocytoma grade 2

Astrocytoma grade 2 (diffuse astrocytoma, IDH-mutant, CNS WHO grade 2) is a slow-growing infiltrative brain glioma defined by IDH1/2 mutation, frequent ATRX/TP53 changes, no 1p/19q codeletion, and few mitoses; treated with surgery, deferred or early radiotherapy, temozolomide, or vorasidenib.

Astrocytoma grade 3

Astrocytoma grade 3 (astrocytoma, IDH-mutant, CNS WHO grade 3; formerly anaplastic astrocytoma) is an infiltrative IDH-mutant brain tumor without 1p/19q codeletion, treated with radiotherapy plus adjuvant temozolomide, median survival about 8 years.

Astrodome

Astrodome (Harris County Domed Stadium), Houston, Texas: world's first air-conditioned enclosed domed stadium, opened April 1965, nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World; birthplace of AstroTurf, vacant since 2009.

AstroForge Odin

Odin was a deep space spacecraft built by the American asteroid-mining company AstroForge, launched in 2025 to fly by near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5 before contact was lost.

Astrolabe

An astrolabe is an astronomical instrument that models the stars and Sun on a flat disk to tell time, measure angles, and find direction, used for over 1,500 years.

Astrolabe Island

Astrolabe Island, an Antarctic island in Bransfield Strait off Trinity Peninsula (63°18'S, 58°40'W), named by d'Urville's 1837-40 expedition after the ship Astrolabe; about 3 miles long, rising to 560 m, with chinstrap penguin colonies.

Astrolabe Rupes

Astrolabe Rupes is a 251-km lobate scarp (thrust-fault cliff) on Mercury at 42.55°S, 70.90°W, named 1976 for d'Urville's Antarctic ship, imaged by MESSENGER in 2008, formed by global contraction.

Astrological age

An astrological age, also called a zodiacal or precessional age, is a period of roughly 2,000 to 2,160 years during which the vernal equinox lies in one zodiacal constellation.

Astrological aspect

An astrological aspect, also called a planetary aspect, is an angle between two planets on the zodiac circle that astrologers read as meaningful, classified as harmonious or tense.

Astrological sign

An astrological sign, also known as a zodiac sign, is one of twelve 30-degree divisions of the Sun's yearly path used in astrology for personality traits and forecasts.

Astrological symbols

Astrological symbols, also called glyphs, are graphic signs for the Sun, Moon, planets, and zodiac signs, used in astrology and formerly in astronomy and now encoded in Unicode.

Astrology

Astrology, also known as Astrologia, is a set of traditions holding that celestial positions correlate with earthly events and human lives, with roots in Mesopotamian divination.

Astrology and science

Astrology and science examines astrology's shared history with astronomy and its scientific testing: double-blind experiments such as Carlson's 1985 study found natal astrology's predictions no better than chance.

Astrology and the classical elements

Astrology and the classical elements: fire, earth, air, and water as the four triplicities sorting the twelve zodiac signs, their Greek origins, humoral-medical extension, modern psychological reading, and scientific testing.