The fruit of the carambola tree, Averrhoa carambola.

A popular sci-fi media franchise set in the future, primarily focusing on the adventures of the personnel of a space navy of an interstellar political federation of which Earth is a charter member.

Futuristic, particularly with respect to things similar in appearance or effect to technology in the Star Trek franchise.

(astronomy) A star which has lost most or all of its hydrogen, leaving just a core of helium.

(chemistry) a polymer composed of star macromolecules

(chemistry) A macromolecule having a single branch point from which linear chains (or arms) emanate.

(astronomy) any of a class of red giant stars having a high proportion of carbon because of helium burning

(astronomy) The star nearest to Earth's axis when extended above the North Pole: currently Polaris, formerly Thuban.

(astronomy) A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris A. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star.

(astronomy) A group of gravitationally bound stars and other material (such as nebulae and planets), conventionally with one generation of similarly aged stars from the same pre-stellar nebula.