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star system

noun

the practice of casting and promoting star performers for their ability to draw at the box office.

star system

astronomy a group of celestial bodies that are associated as a result of natural laws
the practice of casting one or two famous actors or actresses in a film, play, etc, so that their popularity ensures its success
a design for laying cables for cable television in which each house is fed by an individual cable from a local central distribution point

First recorded in 1900–05

In visible light this star system is completely shrouded in dust, its details hidden.

The second is to find planets as close as possible to Earth in size, composition, and position in their star system.

Most of the atoms in a newborn star system are hydrogen, which is the lightest chemical element.

Think of it this way—here's a race, obviously humanoid, on another star system.

Light comes from the uttermost bounds of our star system—to that rim we can extend a positive thought.

The Lhari ships traveled at normal speeds, like the regular planetary ships, inside each star-system.

The Pleiades then would seem to be a most glorious star-system, not yet come to its full growth.

The decline of the star system is rather to be greeted as the dawn of a better era.

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