A Steiner star for a set P of n points in Rd connects an arbitrary center point to all points of P, while a star connects a point p  P to the remaining n-1 points of P. All connections are realized by straight line segments. Fekete and Meijer showed that the minimum star is at most  2 times longer than the minimum Steiner star for any finite point configuration in Rd . The maximum ratio between them, over all finite point configurations in Rd , is called the star Steiner ratio in Rd . It is conjectured that this ratio 							
						
							
					 															
					Adrian Dumitrescu, Csaba D. Tóth, Guangwu X