Dark Star
Appearance
Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:
Astronomy
- Dark star, a star which has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light. Mostly superseded by the concept of "black holes"
- Dark star (dark matter), a star composed of dark matter, which may have existed in the early universe.
Media and entertainment
Music
- Dark Star (band)
- The Rappers Rap Group, a group of rap artists who recorded under the name Dark Star
- Dark Star, an album by Deine Lakaien
- Dark Star, a song by Accessory on the album Forever & Beyond
- Dark Star, a song by Beck on the album The Information
- Dark Star, a song by Bjørn Lynne on the album Dreamstate
- Dark Star, a song by Broder Daniel on the album Cruel Town
- Dark Star, a song by Cinema Bizarre on the album ToyZ
- Dark Star, a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash on the album CSN
- Dark Star, a song by Delerium
- Dark Star, a song by The Grateful Dead on the albums Live/Dead, Two from the Vault, and others
- Dark Star, a song by Hypnogaja on the album Truth Decay
- Dark Star, a song by I Am Kloot on the album Natural History
- Dark Star, a song by Marsmobil on the album Minx
- Dark Star, a song by Mike Oldfield on the album Tubular Bells II
- Dark Star, a song by Mindlikewater on the album The Hourglass Syndrome
Comics
- Darkstar (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
- Darkstars, a DC Comics superhero team
- Darkstar Comics, a fictional comic book company in the TV series Spaced
- "Dark Star", a Transformers comic story
Other
- Dark Star (film) 1974 sci-fi movie directed by John Carpenter
- DarkStar One, a computer game
- Dark Star (magazine), a music magazine that was published from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s which featured bands such as the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and other West Coast bands and related musicians.
- Dark Star (magazine), a magazine that featured work by Alan Moore and the debut of Axel Pressbutton
- Dark Star, a novel by Alan Furst
- Dark Star, a novelization of the movie, by Alan Dean Foster
- Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a biography of Roy Orbison by Ellis Amburn
- Dark Star, a character in the video game No More Heroes
- Dark Star, a malevolent artifact in the video game Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Technology
- Project Darkstar, a framework for creating massively multiplayer online games
- RQ-3 DarkStar, an unmanned aerial vehicle, One of which is located at WPAFB, http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=616
- Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car
- darkstar, A regularly used USAF Military call sign. Heard as recent as 26Jan2009 on 228.9 MHz over Dayton OH.
- darkstar, The default host name of a computer installed with Slackware Linux. (Also several Slackware mirrors.)
Literature
Darkstar Book Series By Matthew Hebert:
- Darkstar Book 1: First Descent
- Darkstar Book 2: Nightfall
- Darkstar Book 3: Forthcoming
- Darkstar Book 4: Tangent
- Darkstar Book 5: Volta
- Darkstar Book 6: Pulsar
- Darkstar Book 7: Memory
- Darkstar Book 8: Return
Other meanings
- Dark Star (brewery)
- Dark Star (horse)
- Eugene DarkStar, an Ultimate frisbee team
See also
Dark Star may be confused with: