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A star is a luminous cosmic body. For uses of stars as a symbol, see List of symbolic stars.

Star or stars may also refer to:

[edit] Places

• Star Mountains, a mountain range in Papua New Guinea

[edit] United Kingdom

• Star, Anglesey, Wales
• Star, Fife, Scotland
• Star, Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Star, Somerset, England

[edit] United States

• Star, Idaho
• Star, Michigan
• Star, Mississippi
• Star, North Carolina
• Star, Texas

[edit] Russia

• Star, Bryansk Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Bryansk Oblast, Russia
• Star, Novgorod Oblast, a village in Novgorod Oblast, Russia

[edit] In arts and entertainment

• A movie star or film star is a celebrity in the film industry
• A pop star is a celebrity in the music industry

[edit] Music

• Star (guitar), a solid body shape produced by several manufacturers

[edit] Albums

• Stars (Cher album) (1975), by American music icon Cher
• Star (album) (1993), by American alternative rock band Belly
• Stars (album) (1991), by British pop rock band Simply Red
• Stars - The Best of 1992 - 2002 (2002), by Irish alternative rock band The Cranberries

[edit] Bands

• Stars (band), a Canadian indie rock band
• Stars (UK band), a British band that featured Syd Barrett
• Starz (band), an American heavy metal rock band of the late 1970s

[edit] Songs

• "Star" (Bryan Adams song), a song by Bryan Adams from the 1996 soundtrack for the movie Jack
• "Star" (David Bowie song), a song by David Bowie from his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• "Star" (Kevin Ayers song), a song by Kevin Ayers
• "Stars" (Chloe song), a song by Chloe, released in 2004
• "Stars" (Cranberries song), a song by the alt-rock band The Cranberries, from their 2002 album Stars: The Best Of 1992-2002
• "Star" (Erasure song), a single by the band Erasure (1990)
• "Stars" (Roxette song), a song by music group Roxette
• "Stars" (Simply Red song), a song by Simply Red from the 1991 album of the same name
• "Star" (Stellar* song), a song by the band Stellar* from their album Magic Line (2001)
• "Stars" (Switchfoot song), a song by the alt-rock band Switchfoot, from their 2005 album Nothing Is Sound

[edit] Films

• The Star (film), a 1952 Bette Davis movie
• Star (film), a 2001 Tamil film from India
• Star! (film), a 1968 Julie Andrews film
• Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 television movie based on the novel by Danielle Steel
• Star 80, a 1983 movie about Dorothy Stratten
• Zvezda (film), (The Star), a 2002 Russian movie

[edit] Television

• Star!, a Canadian cable channel
• STAR TV (Asia), Satellite Television Asian Region
• Star Channel, Greek terrestrial television channel
• Star TV (Turkey) a Turkish nationwide channel

[edit] Sports teams

• The Dallas Stars, a club of the National Hockey League
• The Texas Stars, a future club of the American Hockey League
• The Minnesota North Stars, a former club of the National Hockey League
• The Utah Stars, a team from the now defunct American Basketball Association
• The Huntsville Stars, a Minor League Baseball team

[edit] In other entertainment

• List of radio stations named Star
• Star (board game), an abstract board game
• "The Star", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Star, a novel by Danielle Steel
• Star, a novel by Pamela Anderson
• STAR, The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers
• Stars!, a strategy computer game for Windows first released in 1995
• Stars series, a short run of soccer video games from EA Sports
• Stars (game), a BASIC game from the 1970s
• S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil), a fictional task force in the Resident Evil video game franchise

[edit] In science and technology

• Synthetically thinned aperture radar (STAR), a method of interferometric radar
• Star (game), in combinatorial game theory
• Star-algebra, an associative algebra
• Star domain, in Set theory
• Star network, a computer network topology
• Kleene star, in computer science, a unary operation on strings, symbols, or characters
• Pyrotechnic star, a solid piece of pyrotechnic mixture which is loaded into a shell
• Xerox Star, an office automation workstation introduced in 1981 by Xerox

[edit] In transportation

• Star (automobile), a Durant automobile from the 1920s
• Star (sailboat), a class of small racing sailboat
• Star Airlines, a French airline
• Star Air, an Indonesian airline
• Star Alliance, an airline alliance
• Star class locomotive
• Star Cruises, one of the largest cruise lines in the world
• Star Motor Company, a British car maker from 1898 to 1932
• Star Ferry, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
• Star routes, a US postal service term
• FCS Star, Polish truck manufacturer
• M/S Star, a RoPax ferry for the Estonian ferry company Tallink
• Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, an air ambulance service
• Star of Scilly, a vessel wrecked at St Ives, Cornwall in 1900
• Standard Terminal Arrival Route, or STAR, a published procedure followed by aircraft on an IFR flight plan just before reaching a destination airport

[edit] Other uses

• Star (newspaper), the name of several newspapers and magazines
• STAR (interbank network), an interbank network in the United States
• Stars (restaurant), San Francisco restaurant that pioneered California cuisine, 1984–1999
• Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A., a Spanish firearms company
• Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce the * (asterisk) symbol as 'star'.

[edit] See also

• List of symbolic stars
• Starr
• The Star (disambiguation)
• Zvezda (disambiguation)
• STAR (disambiguation)
• Black Star (disambiguation)
• Double star (disambiguation)
• Evening star (disambiguation)
• Falling star
• Morning star (disambiguation)
• North Star (disambiguation)
• Shooting star (disambiguation)
• Stars and planetary systems in fiction
• Stars in astrology

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