Star hopping is a method often used by amateur astronomers with low-tech equipment such as binoculars or a manually driven telescope.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

" This tune is more commonly recognizable as " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ".

However, it is better known by its other names: () or (), or in English, Cowherd Star.

" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Bronze Star Medal or Bronze Star is an individual military decoration of the United States Armed Forces that may be awarded for acts of heroism, acts of merit, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

The Bronze Star Medal is awarded only to service members in combat who are receiving imminent danger pay.

The Bronze Star Medal is a bronze star in circumscribing diameter.

The Bronze Star Medal with the " V " device is the United States military's fourth highest award for valor.

Star δ Cap, at the tip of the horn, is of the third magnitude.

" " The Morning Star is the Evening Star.

All Star Cheerleader is also available for Nintendo DS.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

One of the most famous cyborgs is Darth Vader from the Star Wars films.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

Appearing only in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is the spice spider of Kessel, a creature made of glitterstim spice and silicon that spun crystalline webs harvested by miners as glitterstim spice, an illegal psychoactive narcotic.

On the night of Christmas Eve, so important is the appearance of the first star in remembrance of the Star of Bethlehem, that it has been given an affectionate name of " the little star " or Gwiazdka ( the female counterpart of St. Nicholas ).

The Dallas Cowboys ' blue star logo representative of Texas as " The Lone Star State " is one of the best known team logos in professional sports.

Because of loose continuity, there's more than one origin story for why he became Darkwing Duck-starting with " Paraducks " ( inspired by his own time-travelling adult self ) and ending with " Crash Reunion " ( a random disguise so he could defend his high school prom from Megavolt ) and " A Star is Scorned ".

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

* 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic " World Teacher ", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.

" The Disease ", an episode of Star Trek: Voyager featured some artificially-engineered silicon-based parasites, and an Enterprise episode, " Observer Effect ", also presented a lethal silicon-based virus.

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

* " Dark Star ", by Beck from The Information

* " Dark Star ", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ

* " Dark Star ", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN

* " Dark Star ", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions

* " Dark Star ", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay

* " Dark Star ", by I Am Kloot from Natural History

* " Dark Star ", by Jackal & Hyde

* " Dark Star ", by Mike Oldfield from Tubular Bells II

* " Dark Star ", by Tarja Turunen from What Lies Beneath

The Targum connects the name with the Persian word for " star ", ستاره setareh, explaining that Esther was so named for being as beautiful as the Morning Star.

* " E² ", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

In the Star Trek episode " The Ultimate Computer ", Dr. McCoy refers to an alcoholic drink known as the " Finagle's Folly ," apparently a reference to " Finagle's Law.

" The Making of Star Wars, The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film ", Ebury Press, 2007.

Chen is in charge of the engine room and operates the " digital conveyor ", a variant of the Star Trek transporter.

As an example, take these two descriptions: " the Morning Star ", and " the Evening Star ".

Billed as " The Pride of the American People, A Star of the First Magnitude ", the critics were equally enthusiastic.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.