The Hollywood Reporter's Star Power Directory says a star is a star because he or she can ensure financing, ensure major studio distribution or ensure a film's wide theatrical release.
This follows the discovery last year by Maciej Konacki, of the California Institute of Technology, of a gaseous giant orbiting a star that is itself orbited by a binary-star system.
On the one hand, Kerry's war hero biography -- Yale graduate who goes on to win three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star -- is a political consultant's dream.
He's figured out how to become an All-American football player and how to still be proud of being a Palestinian, and an Arab and a Muslim, and knowing that he is a rising star in a community that needed a rising star.
But perhaps the best way to travel like a star is to, well, travel like a star.
Catching a distant glimpse of a star professor is not the same as being taught by him.
Whether the component is a motor, a control valve, a star tracker, an antenna or a chip, it is simpler to look for non-American alternatives.
If the film is a hit, it will be yet more proof that Tatum is a star who can succeed in many different genres.
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Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
Even allowing for the fact oneworld is a looser federation of airlines than Star, this is a nonsense.
However, because the light from any planet orbiting a star at which the lens is aimed directly is arriving from a point slightly to the side of that star, it is able to shine through essentially unaltered.
Or so suggests new observations of a nearby bright solar type star that is a close analogue to our own.
Some of the photographs recall a more innocent time when a star such as Ingrid Bergman is photographed in a car with her mother-in-law and daughter Isabella Rosellini.
Dujardin, with a pencil mustache, looks a little like John Gilbert, but his cavorting star is meant to be a Fairbanks equivalent.
Streisand won a second Oscar in 1997 for Evergreen, the theme song from A Star is Born.
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Terry, God love her, is a Gold Star sister, a Gold Star wife, and a Gold Star mother -- none should be asked to sacrifice that much.
It's a tricky question because a new Star Wars film is planned for 2015.
"I think our culture instinctively teaches us to take care of women and we won't be combat ready, " said the pub's owner and a former Navy SEAL, Greg McPartlin, who is a Bronze Star recipient.
To do that, Project 1640 effectively blots out the light from stars, which allows astronomers to more clearly observe what might be around them, including objects up to 10 million times fainter than the star itself (the image on the right above is a nearby star captured with the imaging system in place, compared to the same star captured without the new system on the left).
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Hugo is a movie without a lot of star power that is for the whole family but will likely appeal to adults.
In the tech world, it is widely known that a star performer is not just 50 percent more productive than an average person, but two or three times more productive.
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"Tracey is a big star, she was a fun runner and then all of a sudden she's an Olympic runner, " said Sarah Hodgson, who has been inspired to take up running by her sister.
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The difference is that Dessie was by that stage 11 years old - a man, if you like - while Kauto Star is a still maturing six.
Another treat is the mystery celebrity guest, on this occasion The Royle Family star Sue Johnston, a consummate professional who is brought in to star in McColl's play and is sent up at every opportunity.
That is because a star does not show up as a pinprick of light when it is photographed.
So LaBeouf has turned into a bona fide movie star who is a true box office draw without the hefty salary demands.
You can make a cash donation online to the organization (note that Fisher House is a four star charity according to Charity Navigator and 96% of funds go directly to the cause).
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At least, this is what happens to a pulsar that is the remains of a lonely, companionless star such as the sun.
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