Stars

The star is the most familiar and undoubtedly the most transcendental astronomical object. The word comes from the Latin stella and designates any visible star that twinkles, including planets and comets. The Old English word steorra or stearra stems from Proto-Germanic sterro from Proto-Indo-European ster, root shared by Latin stella and Greek aster. The Latin word itself stems from an Indo-European root stel meaning “that is strewn with stars”.