Aster
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Aster may refer to:
- Aster (genus), a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
- CallistephusCallistephusCallistephus is a genus of flowering plants, in the Asteraceae ; the genus includes only one species, C. chinensis, the China Aster....
, another genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly called Aster or Chinese Aster - Aster Data SystemsAster Data SystemsAster Data Systems is a data management and analysis software company headquartered in San Carlos, California. It was founded in 2005 and acquired in 2011.-Products:...
, an analytics database start up in Silicon Valley - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection RadiometerAdvanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection RadiometerASTER is a Japanese sensor which is one of five remote sensory devices on board the Terra satellite launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999...
(ASTER) on board the Terra satellite - Aster (auto parts company)Aster (auto parts company)Aster was a French manufacturer of automobile parts; from 1900 to 1910 the company produced chassis, though it is not known if they built complete cars.The firm whose full name was Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster from St...
, a French auto parts manufacturer between 1900 and 1910 - Aster AwekeAster AwekeAster Aweke is an Ethiopian singer who lives in the United States. She is sometimes referred to as Ethiopia’s Aretha Franklin.Aweke was born in 1961 in Gondar, Ethiopia, and was raised in the capital city of Addis Ababa...
- Ethiopian singer - Aster (automobile)Aster (automobile)The Aster was an English automobile manufactured from 1922 to 1930. The companies car roots can be traced to 1899 when Begbie Manufacturing of Wembley, in north London became British licensees of the French Aster company making mainly stationary engines...
, a British automobile manufactured between 1922 and 1930 - Aster CT-80Aster CT-80The Aster CT-80, an early home/personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP , was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists. Later it was sold ready to use. It consisted of several Eurocard PCB's with DIN 41612 connectors, and a backplane all based on a 19-inch rack...
, an early Dutch eight-bit home computer - MBDA AsterMBDA AsterAster is a family of surface-to-air missiles manufactured by Eurosam, a European consortium consisting of MBDA France, MBDA Italy and the Thales Group .-Overview:The Aster family was developed to perform three distinct missions:...
surface-to-air missile - Aster (cell biology)Aster (cell biology)An aster is a cellular structure shaped like a star, formed around each centrosome during mitosis in an animal cell. Astral rays, composed of microtubules, radiate from the centrosphere and look like a cloud....
, a star-shaped structure with fibers surrounding the centrosome, formed in the cytoplasm of a cell during mitosis - Code AsterCode AsterCode_Aster is an Open Source software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics originally developed as an in-house application by the French company EDF...
, a software package for finite elements analysis - Aster (typeface)Aster (typeface)The Aster typeface was designed originally in 1958 by Francesco Simoncini for Simoncini to be used in newspapers and books. This typeface is designed fairly wide with detailed and delicate serifs, it also has short ascenders and descenders for economy of space. The New Aster font family offers a...
, a serif-class of typeface - Aster Nu (design), a holistic designers group from the 1990s, known for their extravagance use of naked men/women in their advertising campaigns, referring to nature (Nu means naked in French).