star system

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London would be more suited to either a percentage or flat fee system, the authors suggested, as Britain "lacks a statutory national 'star' system for hotels present in France and Italy".

From BBC

To put it in context, an optimistic estimate for the time it would take to fetch a similar sample from the nearest star system is comparable to the age of our species.

From Scientific American

Scientists realized Halla was in a precarious position only when they examined the star system a few years later with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

From New York Times

Indeed, while astronomers expected to see a lot of similar intricate details between our solar system and the Fomalhaut star system, they were surprised to find that it is more complicated than previously thought, in part because they discovered it has an unexpectedly convoluted asteroid belt.

From Salon

Astronomers believe that the debris disks outside the Fomalhaut star system are likely shaped by unseen planets, too.

From Salon