Finer than fine

Usage examples of stellar.

The belief that the stars were living beings, combining with the fancy of an unscientific time, gave rise to the stellar apotheosis of heroes and legendary names, and was the source of those numerous asterisms, out lined groups of stars, which still bedeck the skies and form the landmarks of celestial topography.

This mission had initially been a simple one involving astrography charting and stellar analysis.

A biological fusion reactor, with a biosystem capable of exploiting it, could provide the means for engineering on a stellar scale.

Mexico, Brazil, and Poland overdubbed in cheap, sleazy attempts to revive vaudeville, and taped coverage of such stellar live sports events as Demolition Derby, and Bobtail truck races.

You see, by extrapolating from data on known stellar types, I know approximately what this star was like in its palmy days.

The red-dwarf stellar companion, nearing periastron but still over nine hundred light-minutes away, was visible only as a dim, ruddy star.

Once the mass of a protostar reached a threshold level, it would ignite in a fusion reaction that would generate a fierce stellar wind, to blow away the remnants of the nursery nebula.

Red supergiants are the least dense and among the coolest of all stellar formations, particularly in the surface areas.

This is not an instance of one galaxy colliding with another and absorbing it, or of a supermassive black hole or other identifiable astronomical phenomenon siphoning off stellar mass.

The four rockets, with stellar fuel RE-202-esane formed the points of a trihedral pyramid, within which hung the Snow Planet.

This in turn involved us in the proceedings of the Stellar Institute back on Arvel, its rather hectic social rounds as well as its data evaluations.

Their first few efforts, singly and together, had been less than stellar, and for a while, he had relied on the Bedu more than he had liked.

But the owner of a gorgeous Chinook who deliberately passes off this stellar rare-breed specimen as a shepherd mix?

These crystalline low-temperature, quasi-natural, and endlessly self-transformed entities had appeared as an infinitely intricate jeweled garden or huge congeries of minute machinery, a masterpiece of the blind watchmaker operating with nothing more than a faint wash of solar and stellar energy differentials and the self-organizing properties of extremophile nanobacteria.

So easy is it that the cantors have given these known pathways a special name: They call them the stellar fallaways to distinguish them from that part of the manifold that is unmapped, and quite often, unmappable.