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A star is a luminous cosmic body.

Star or stars may also refer to:

[edit] Places

[edit] Russia

• Star, Bryansk Oblast, an urban-type settlement
• Star, Novgorod Oblast, a rural locality (village)

[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] Elsewhere

• Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea

[edit] Music

[edit] Bands

• Stars (Canadian band), an indie rock group formed in 2000
• Stars (UK band), a 1972 supergroup

[edit] Albums

• Star (album) (1993), by Belly
• Stars (Cher album)
• Stars (Makai album)
• Stars (Simply Red album)
• Stars: The Best of 1992–2002, by The Cranberries

[edit] Songs

• "Star" (Bryan Adams song)
• "Star" (Kevin Ayers song)
• "Star" (David Bowie song)
• "Stars" (Chloe song)
• "Stars" (Cranberries song)
• "Star" (Erasure song)
• "Stars" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Stars" (Roxette song)
• "Stars" (Simply Red song)
• "Star" (Stellar* song)
• "Stars" (Switchfoot song)
• "Stars", a song by Dubstar on the album Disgraceful
• "Star", a song by Terri Walker on the album L.O.V.E
• "Star (*), a song by Project 86 on the album Drawing Black Lines

[edit] Films

• Star (film), a 2001 Tamil film
• Star! (film), a 1968 musical starring Julie Andrews
• Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 television film starring Jennie Garth

[edit] Broadcasting

• Star!, a Canadian cable channel
• Star Channel, a Greek television channel
• STAR TV (Asia), a broadcasting corporation
• Star TV (Turkey) a Turkish television channel
• Star (radio), the name of several radio stations

[edit] Sports

• Dallas Stars, an American hockey team in the NHL
• Minnesota North Stars, the 1967–1993 incarnation of the above NHL franchise
• Texas Stars, an American hockey team in the AHL
• Utah Stars, a 1970–1976 American basketball team, formerly the Los Angeles Stars
• Huntsville Stars, a current American minor-league baseball team
• Hollywood Stars, an American minor-league baseball team that operated from 1926–1935 and 1938–1957
• Star (football crest)
• Supporters' Trust At Reading, a Reading Football Club supporters' organization

[edit] Gaming

• Star (board game)
• Stars (game), a 1970s game in BASIC
• Stars (series), a series of soccer video games
• Stars!, a game for Windows
• STARS (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad), a fictional task force in the Resident Evil franchise, introduced in the first game
• Star, a Yie Ar Kung-Fu character

[edit] Mathematics

• Star (game), a concept in combinatorial game theory
• Star (graph theory)
• Star-algebra, an associative algebra
• Star domain, a concept in set theory
• Kleene star, a unary operation
• Star refinement, a concept in topology
• A set of simplices in a simplicial complex

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Land

• Star (automobile), a 1920s American car
• Star class locomotive
• Star Motor Company, an 1898-1932 British car manufacturer
• FCS Star, a Polish truck manufacturer
• Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, an expressway in the Philippines

[edit] Water

• Star (sailboat)
• Star Cruises
• Star Ferry, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
• MS Star, an Estonian ferry
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, a yacht race

[edit] Air

• Star Airlines (Burma)
• Star Airlines (France)
• Star Air (disambiguation), the name of several airlines
• Star Alliance, an alliance of airlines
• Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, an air ambulance service
• Standard Terminal Arrival Route, a flight procedure
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system

[edit] Academic

• STAR (software), an educational software series
• STAR (student association)
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, a school assessment program
• Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a Malaysian public school
• New York State School Tax Relief Program

[edit] Science and technology

• Star network, a computer network topology
• Star schema, a data warehousing model
• STAR Bus, a satellite platform
• STAR detector, a particle physics experiment
• Pyrotechnic star
• Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, a transport protein
• Synthetically thinned aperture radar, a interferometric radar method

[edit] Military and law enforcement

• Special Tasks and Rescue, a division of the South Australia police
• Special Task And Rescue, a division of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
• Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore), a division of the Singapore Police Force
• HMCS Star, a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command
• A star ranking, as in a 5 star rank

[edit] Other uses

• Star (classification), used to rank restaurants, films, etc.
• Star (glyph), a depiction of a star in typography
• Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
• STAR (interbank network)

• Star (symbol)
• Stars (restaurant)
• Star routes, a US Postal Service term
• Celebrity, a famous person
  • Movie star, a celebrity famous for performing in films
• Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A., a Spanish firearms company
• S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
• Situation, Task, Action, Result, an interview technique
• The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, a UK organization
• Stolen Asset Recovery
• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a transgender organization
• Star, a novel by Danielle Steel
• Star, a novel by Pamela Anderson
• STAR Events, a leadership program of the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America

[edit] See also

• The Star (disambiguation)
• Starr (disambiguation)
• Starz (disambiguation)
• List of symbolic stars

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