a stellar performance/player/team
stellar light
a stellar explosion
stellar light
2 (of people or their activities) extremely high in quality; excellent: --
The cellist gave a stellar performance before an enthusiastic audience.
3 of an extremely high standard: --
His new book recounts his stellar career as a professional risk-taker.
The company has a stellar reputation for its treatment of its workers.
After two years of stellar performance, he was promoted to the city branch of the agriculture bank.
Chapter 8 moves to the stars, introducing the basics of stellar astrophysics and considers what stars might be suitable for supporting life.
Such planets are expected to occupy the outer regions of their habitable zones where stellar flux and effective temperatures are lower.
The model is based on the global carbon cycle mediated by life and driven by increasing stellar luminosity and plate tectonics.
The cast of authors is stellar - many of the papers contain superb work.
Refreshingly, they do not claim stellar performance, nor that automatic speech recognition has been solved by their work.
In our study we discuss one possible existence of counter-rotation in the scale of a planetary system, most probably caused by a stellar flyby.
The luminosity evolution of the main-sequence central star is deduced by polynomial fitting of stellar evolution models.
Stellar distances and luminosities were calculated using the above data and procedures described in the text.
