star city

plural star cities · alternative star-city

1. figurativelygalaxy

   The Sun - our local star - is one of an estimated 200 billion making up our 'star-city', the Galaxy.

   1994, Nigel Henbest, Heather Couper, Michael Marten, The Guide to the Galaxy, page 3

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   Time paced out the slow, unending centuries, marked them by the revolution of the great, shining wheel of the galaxy, the giant star-city of a billion, billion suns.

   2014, John Glasby, J.L. Powers, Black Abyss

   The majority of the massive, or rich, clusters that are being formed now have tens of thousands of stars like our current population of globulars. Therefore, once completed they will look like these star cities.

   2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, page 132

   Each arc has turned out to be the distorted image of a distant galaxy, focused by the gravity of the foreground star-city.

   2015, Heather Couper, Nigel Henbest, The Secret Life of Space

1. A place in Canada
   1. A small town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after the first postmaster, Walter Starkey, and within the rural municipality.
   2. A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Star City No. 428) in north central Saskatchewan.
2. A number of places in the United States
   1. A city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Arkansas, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Illinois, United States.
   3. A census-designated place in Pulaski County, Indiana, United States.
   4. An unincorporated community in West Branch Township, Missaukee County, Michigan, United States.
   5. A ghost town in Pershing County, Nevada, United States.
   6. A town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
3. A place in Russia
   1. A closed city in Moscow Oblast, Russia
   2. A spaceflight reservation in Star City, Moscow Oblast, Russia