star system

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star system (plural star systems)

(astronomy) A group of stars (and possibly smaller bodies such as planets or asteroids) that orbit one another.
Synonym: stellar system

Hyponyms: binary star, double star
(film) A method of creating, promoting and exploiting movie stars in cinema, emphasizing on their images rather than their acting.
- 2001, Paul McDonald, The Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 107:
  Chapters have examined the general structural trends that have defined particular phases in the organisation of the star system, looking at the conditions in which the system emerged, how the studios controlled the ownership of star images, and the power of the star in contemporary Hollywood.

Systems with planetary bodies orbiting stars are referred to as solar systems or planetary systems.

group of stars that orbit one another

Arabic: نِظَام نَجْمِيّ m (niẓām najmiyy)
Armenian: աստղային համակարգ (astġayin hamakarg)
Belarusian: зо́рная сістэ́ма f (zórnaja sistéma), зо́рная сыстэ́ма f (zórnaja systéma)
Bulgarian: зве́здна систе́ма f (zvézdna sistéma)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 恆星系統 / 恒星系统 (héngxīng xìtǒng), 恆星系 / 恒星系 (zh) (héngxīngxì)
Finnish: tähtijärjestelmä
French: système stellaire (fr) m
German: Sternsystem (de) n, Sternensystem (de) n
Hindi: तारा प्रणाली f (tārā praṇālī), तारकीय प्रणाली f (tārkīya praṇālī)
Hungarian: csillagrendszer (hu)
Italian: sistema stellare (it) m
Japanese: 恒星系 (ja) (こうせいけい, kōseikei)
Korean: 항성계(恒星系) (hangseonggye)
Macedonian: ѕвезден систем m (dzvezden sistem)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stjernesystem n
Persian: سامانهٔ ستاره‌ای (sâmâne-ye setâre-yi)
Polish: układ gwiazd m, system gwiezdny m
Portuguese: sistema estelar (pt) m
Romanian: sistem stelar n
Russian: звёздная систе́ма f (zvjózdnaja sistéma)
Spanish: sistema estelar m
Swedish: stjärnsystem n
Turkish: yıldız sistemi (tr)
Ukrainian: зо́ряна систе́ма f (zórjana systéma)