A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction. A large group of stars bound by gravitation...

A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night...

The star system was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films from the 1920s until the 1960s. Movie studios had selected...

Osamu Tezuka's Star System (手塚漫画のキャラクター一覧, Tedzuka Manga no Kyarakutā Ichiran, lit. The Tezuka Manga Character List) is the name given to the recurring...

orbital systems with other astronomical objects, as in planetary systems and star systems with two or more stars. When two such stars orbit closely, their...

Apep is a triple star system containing a Wolf–Rayet binary and a hot supergiant, located in the constellation of Norma. Named after the serpent deity...

The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies...

Planets in binary star systems may be candidates for supporting extraterrestrial life. Habitability of binary star systems is determined by many factors...

brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Σείριος (Latin script: Seirios), meaning lit. 'glowing' or 'scorching'. The star is...

novels, comics, and video games. A single Star Destroyer could project considerable influence over a star system in the name of the Empire: each can be deployed...

in multiple-star systems where the orbital mechanics can lead to exotic day–night or seasonal cycles, while others do not orbit any star at all. More...

Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack...

Star is a series of console role-playing video games and other supplementary media created by Sega. The series debuted in 1987 on the Master System with...

system, using stars instead of exclamation points, first for points of interest and later for hotels. The Michelin restaurant guide introduced a star...

species of telepathic plants. The Cotati originated on Hala in the Pama star system in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the same planet as the warlike humanoid...

explained below, forming the star's spectral type. Other modern stellar classification systems, such as the UBV system, are based on color indices—the...

appearing to the naked eye as a single point of light, Polaris is a triple star system, composed of the primary, a yellow supergiant designated Polaris Aa,...

WeatherStar (sometimes rendered Weather Star or WeatherSTAR; "STAR" being an acronym for Satellite Transponder Addressable Receiver) is the technology...

the first to develop its own movie star system, primarily for commercial reasons. In other countries, the "star" system is not common, with most actors being...

[star] of Centaurus'. Proxima Centauri is a member of the Alpha Centauri star system, being identified as component Alpha Centauri C, and is 2.18° to the...

STAR is an American interbank network. It is the largest interbank network in United States, with 2 million ATMs, 134 million cardholders and over 5,700...

Mizar's star is not a double star, but a four-star binary system located in the constellation Ursa Major (also known as the Big Dipper). This system consists...

the progenitor star, which is unexpected for type Ia but has been observed in some cases. A bow shock located to the north of this system is believed to...

designed for traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship" appears as early as 1882 in Oahspe:...

in a quadruple star system, first known circumbinary planet in a quadruple star system, and the first planet in a quadruple star system found. It was the...

designation 27 Tauri, is a triple star system in the constellation of Taurus. It is a member of the Pleiades, an open star cluster (M45). It is 431 light-years...

and final game in the original Phantasy Star series, concluding the story of the Algol Star System. Phantasy Star IV kept many of the gameplay elements...

planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar bodies in or out of orbit around a star or star system. Generally speaking, systems with one...

magnetic type of cataclysmic variable (CV) binary star system, originally known as an AM Herculis star after the prototype member AM Herculis. Like other...

the companion. Therefore, the secondary is often referred to as the donor star, and it is usually less massive than the primary. The infalling matter, which...