Seven star explained

Seven or 7 Star(s) or star(s) may refer to:

Astronomy

• The Classical planets, /Seven Luminaries, being the five planets visible to the naked eye, plus the Sun and Moon
• Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and the Seven Stars
• The Big Dipper or The Plough, the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major
• The Little Dipper
• Orion (constellation), (seven stars with four being his shoulders and feet plus three in Orion's Belt

Geographic features

• Seven-star Cave, Guilin, Guangxi, China
• Seven Star Crags, limestone crags in Guangdong Province, China
• Seven Star Mountain, extinct volcano in Taiwan

Pubs and taverns

• The Seven Stars, a popular English pub name - see Pub names#Trades, tools and products
  • Seven Stars, Holborn, London
  • Seven Stars, West Kensington, London
  • Seven Stars Public House, Bristol
  • The Seven Stars Inn, Robertsbridge, Sussex
  • Seven Stars, Falmouth, Cornwall
  • Seven Stars, Bilston
• The Seven Stars Tavern
  • Seven Stars Tavern, MD, Baltimore, the founding place of the (U.S.) Independent Order of Odd Fellows
  • Seven Stars Tavern, NJ, Woodstown, on the (U.S.) National Register of Historic Places

Rating systems

• Star (classification), a grading system

Sporting

• Seven Star Praying Mantis Boxing, a subdivision of Northern Praying Mantis
• Seven Stars F.C., an association football club from Cape Town, South Africa
• Seven Stars (Cape Verdean basketball club), a basketball club

Literature

• The Jewel of Seven Stars, a 1903 novel by Bram Stoker
• Seven Stars, a collection of short stories by Kim Newman, related to the Stoker novel

Music

• "7 Stars", a song from the New Magnetic Wonder album by The Apples in Stereo
• "Seven Stars" (Air song)
• "Seven for the seven stars in the sky", a line of the song Green Grow the Rushes, O
• "Seven Stars", a song from the Theories of Flight album by Progressive Metal band Fates Warning

Other

• Seven Stars, short name of the videogame Super Mario RPG
• Seven Stars (TV channel), a Saudi Arabian TV channel
• Sevenstar Flying Squid, Martialia hyadesii
• Seven Stars (cigarette), a brand of cigarette
• Seven Stars in Kyushu, an excursion train in Japan
• John's vision of the Son of Man, which includes an image of Jesus with seven stars in his right hand
• Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards, tourism and hospitality awards founded in 2013

See also

• Heptagram or seven-pointed star