Now it was a tightly packed white-hot star, brighter than the surface of the sun, and only about a meter in diameter.

Her right forearm was a white-hot star, burning furiously at the center of her body's shivering universe; the pain nauseated her, only the intensity of her anger kept her mind clear.

Then the angry Titan towered over Iblis, optic threads glowing like white-hot stars.

The only thing we have to avoid is stars; their gravitational fields would drain the energy out of the apparatus and we'd end up in the center of a white-hot star.

There were other white-hot stars off to port and starboard.

Down the face of it were three burning, white-hot stars.

As part of the Beta Pictoris moving group, HD172555 is coeval with that more famous system, approximately 12 million years old, and is the same kind of white-hot star as Beta Pic, about twice as massive as our Sun and about 9.5 times as luminous.

Mr. Johnson, in fact, is often cited as the kind of white-hot star of a generation ago, when he was in "Miami Vice," that is rarely if ever generated today.

If it were, then Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara - the white-hot stars of Kathleen Marshall's delicious revival of this 1954 musical - would be looking at long jail terms.