a planetary system; = solar system n.
In early use, in bracketed quotations: a body of stars bound together by gravitational attraction.
Owing to the precision [sic] of the Equinox, and the motion of the whole Star System round some distant and unknown center, the Earth, is constantly making a new path, through absolute space.]
The nearest fixed star of our star system whose distance has been measured, is the brightest in the constellation Centaur.]
White and bluish-white stars, such as Sirius, Rigel, Spica, and Vega, are young in the order of evolution, and are at full glow. In the course of time, as they reach their hottest stage, they turn golden-yellow like Capella, Pollux, and the sun, and again as they get older, become ruddy or red, and are often variable, as in the cases of Betelgeux, Aldebaran, and Antares. Finally, as the ages pass, their light dies away, and they become dark, opaque bodies—extinct and dead suns rushing unseen on their unlit ways. It has been roughly estimated that the extinct stars or suns outnumber the lucent ones, one hundred to one. Verily, the universe is one vast cemetery of dead suns and systems of worlds. The process of creation or of evolution of matter is, however, continuously going on, suns and star systems are ever being evolved, and as Flammarion puts it, ‘in space there are both cradles and tombs.’ ]
The first partitions [of the gaseous nebulae] are the star-systems such as our galactic system.]
He was of the race of Canopus, natives of this giant star-system.
For the ship represents a thing of enormous value to our world. And, we think, to this entire star-system.
This star system contains one inhabited planet, the third from the Sun, called Earth by its inhabitants.
In fifty-four years we had covered approximately one tenth of the four and one third light years to the famous nearest star system.
No one, least of all league agents, turned down the invitations of the reigning big shots of an Empire of sixty thousand star systems, especially when one’s purpose required considerable tact.
Then Hotang Lu sketched a crude diagram of the catmen’s star-system.
Following my orders, the navigator again constructed a sphere of speculation in his tank. The surface of the sphere contacted all the star systems a day’s flight ahead of the maximum flight of the stolen battleship.
Despite every shortcoming, Central Worlds at least worked for the good of the total Federation, not for the aggrandizement of one isolated star system, or a mercenary monopoly.
From the scattered Herculeans still alive on more than a dozen star systems, besides those on Myraa’s World, I've learned that the Whisper Ship is probably manned by an officer named Gorgias and his son of the same name.
Whenever a life probe entered a star system, it usually brought radical changes with it.
Under the terms of the Act of Annexation the Kingdom claimed the star system as a whole and established a protectorate over the Medusans but specifically renounced sovereignty over their planet. In effect, this entire planet is one huge reservation for the natives, with the exception of specific sites designated for off-worlder enclaves.
I'd handed them over to the local governor and he'd assured me they'd be dealt with; eleven months later, they had a new ship and I caught them looting an Andy freighter in the very same star system.
It takes a desperate captain and crew to try crossing the Silurian Void, especially in some of the ships we’ve had limping through our star system.
There weren’t literally a thousand planets in the league, but it encompassed many star systems, all answering to the same government.
antedating 1833
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