Aster
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Aster may refer to:
Plants
- Aster (genus), a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
- Callistephus, another genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly called Chinese Aster
- North American genera formerly included within Aster:
People
- Aster Aweke (born 1959), Ethiopian singer
- Aster Berkhof or Lode Van Den Bergh (born 1920), Belgian writer
- Aster Fissehatsion (born 1951), Eritrean politician and political prisoner
- Aster Ganno (c.1872–1964), Ethiopian Bible translator
- Aster Yohannes, Eritrean political prisoner
- Ernst Ludwig von Aster (1778-1855), Prussian, Saxon and Russian general
- Jack Aster or Walter Russell Crampton (1877–1938), Australian trade unionist, journalist and politician
- Jeannette Aster, Austria-born Canadian opera director
- Misha Aster (born 1978), Canadian opera and classical music producer, director, writer and educator
- Nian Aster, American filmmaker
- Richard C. Aster, American seismologist and professor
Fictional characters
- Aster Phoenix, from the Japanese anime Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Molly Aster, from the Peter Pan series
- Sajit Aster, from the Japanese manga Waltz in a White Dress
Other
- Aster Revolution or Chrysanthemum Revolution, in Hungary in 1918
- Operation Aster or Tallinn Offensive, by the Soviet army in 1944
- Aster (cell biology), a cellular structure shaped like a star, formed around each centrosome during mitosis
- ASTER or Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, a Japanese sensor on board the Terra satellite
- Aster Data Systems, an analytics database start up in Silicon Valley
- Aster CT-80, an early Dutch eight-bit home computer
- Code Aster, a software package for finite elements analysis
- Aster (missile family) A family of Surface to Air Missiles, produced jointly by France, Great Britain and Italy.
- Belgian minehunter Aster (M915), ship
- USS Aster (1864), United States Navy ship
- Aster (typeface), a serif-class of typeface
- Asters (Shevchenko Didkovskiy and Partners), a Ukrainian law firm
- Aster (automobile), a British automobile manufactured between 1922 and 1930
- Aster Paris- Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster - a French automobile and engine manufacturer from 1900-1910
- Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster, a French automobile and engine manufacturer from 1900-1910
- Aster Società Italiana Motori, an Italian automobile manufacturer from 1906-1908
- Aster Glacier, in Antarctica
- 1218 Aster, a main-belt asteroid
See also
- All pages beginning with "Aster"
- All pages with titles containing "Aster"
- Astor (disambiguation)
- Asterism (disambiguation)