Here is a look at the stars who have managed to turn it around and make lots of money in the process.
Unlike a conventional spacecraft, which would be navigated on the basis of signals sent to and from ground controllers, Deep Space 1 is programmed to make its own left-right, up-down decisions on data from sensors that look at the stars to track position and guide course changes.
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But given that exoplanets could well form in many different ways, astrophysicists believe that taking a closer look at the neglected majority of double stars may reveal a galaxy full of new worlds.
Every year, the reporters at Forbes look for up-and-coming stars in the industries we cover.
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Take a look at the endless rows of simple crosses and stars of 19- and 20-year-olds from places like Montana and Pennsylvania, who crossed the ocean to die in foreign fields for the cause of freedom.
While movie stars are seemingly somewhat superfluous in the age of Transformers and Avatar, a look at the top grossing films of 2010 on Box Office Mojo shows that stars still matter.
Most of the Republican stars look like they couldn't withstand a vigorous game of bridge at the Del Boca Vista retirement home.
"The rap stars like to pull up and just look at you, " says Milliner, typically nonplussed.
We stare up at the stars and dream of reaching them, but few people look off the side of a boat and wish they could go down there.
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When you look at the performance of Avatar, which had amazing 3-D effects and no stars, it seems like movie-going today is about how the film looks, not who's in it.
Each one, Vogt said, is like a Rorschach test for the theorists, offering plenty of ways to look at this brand-new material and many new thoughts on the origins of the stars, their planets, their orbits and their life spans.
In his rubbery Botox-android way, he's creepy to look at (and he makes you wonder if this will be the future for aging movie stars), but there isn't much to Clu besides his telegenic blank stare.
If you look at the chart of American Tower (AMT), it appears like the stock is building a stairway to the stars.
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