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    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...
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  • The star system was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films from the 1920s until the 1960s. Movie studios would select...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that...
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    Planets in binary star systems may be candidates for supporting extraterrestrial life. Habitability of binary star systems is determined by many factors...
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    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...
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    Sirius (redirect from Dog star)
    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...
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    Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Operating System RedStar 3.0". Vice News. Retrieved August 14, 2021. Tong-hyung, Kim (5 April 2010). "NK Goes for Linux-Based Operating System". The Korea...
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  • system, using stars instead of exclamation points, first for points of interest and later for hotels. The Michelin restaurant guide introduced a star...
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    Polaris (redirect from North Star)
    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,...
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    the unaided eye. Proxima Centauri is a member of the Alpha Centauri star system, being identified as component Alpha Centauri C, and is 2.18° to the...
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    Mizar and Alcor (redirect from Pioneer Star)
    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...
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    and star-like objects that do not fit in the classical system, such as class D for white dwarfs and classes S and C for carbon stars. In the MK system, a...
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    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...
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  • planets with sentience, planets without stars, and planets in multiple-star systems where the orbital mechanics can lead to exotic day–night or seasonal...
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    massive-star system could be a progenitor of life in another way – the supernova explosion of the massive star in the central part of the system. This supernova...
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  • frequency Star Star system Other than the Sun An "average" star is a normal star which is larger than a red dwarf, but smaller than a giant star. Depending...
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    A laser guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order...
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    planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in or out of orbit around a star or star system. Generally speaking, systems with one...
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    Starship (redirect from Star ship)
    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:...
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  • PH1b (redirect from PH1 (star system))
    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...
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    parsecs) from the Solar System. Although it is near Earth it is a dim magnitude 15 and can only be seen through large telescopes. This star was found to have...
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    expelled as the result of either galaxies colliding or of a multiple-star system traveling too close to a supermassive black hole, which are found at...
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