**
** may refer to:
**
, to express food exponentiation in some programming languages**
, a pointer to a pointer (ordouble pointer) in C syntax**
, interpolation of keyword arguments into function calls in Python**
, symbol in astronomical notation representing:- Binary star
- Double star
- Multiple star
- Multiple star system
- 2018 Winter Paralympics (**), whose logo is a pair of vertically side-by-side 1-pointed asterisks