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Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:

Astronomy

• Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), a star that has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light under Newtonian gravity
• Dark star (dark matter), a star heated by annihilation of dark matter particles within it
• Dark-energy star, an object composed of dark energy that outwardly resembles a black hole

Media and entertainment

Film

• The Dark Star (1919 film), a lost 1919 silent film
• The Dark Star (1955 film), a 1955 West German drama film
• Dark Star (film), a 1974 science fiction comedy film directed by John Carpenter
• Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant
• Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World, a 2014 Swiss documentary
• "Darkstar", a fictional military aircraft in the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick

Television

• Darkstar (Ben 10), or Michael Morningstar, a character in the Ben 10 franchise

Literature

Comics

• Darkstar (Marvel 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, an issue of the comics series The Transformers

Books

• The Dark Star, a 1917 novel by Robert W. Chambers
• Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon
• The Dark Star, a 1939 novel by Margaret Mackie Morrison, writing as March Cost
• Dark Star, a 1969 novel by Norma K. Hemming, writing as Nerina Hilliard
• Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster
• Dark Star, a 1985 biography about John Gilbert written by his daughter Leatrice Joy-Gilbert
• Dark Star, a 1989 novel by Marcia Muller
• Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn
• Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst
• Dark Star, a 2008 Stony Man novel by Nick Pollotta, writing as Don Pendleton
• Darkstar, a 2011 novella by Christopher R. Howard
• Dark Star, a 2020 book by Jane Holland, an omnibus of the Stella Penhaligon series

Music

Performers

• Dark Star (band), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998–2001
• Darkstar (band), an English electronic duo, formed 2007
• Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band
• Darkstar, a progressive metal band co-founded by Dan Rock of Psychotic Waltz

Albums

• Dark Star (soundtrack), by John Carpenter, 1980
• Dark Star, by Deine Lakaien, 1991
• Dark Star, by The Supernaturals, 1993
• Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead, by the David Murray Octet, 1996
• Dark Star (album), by the Grateful Dead and featuring their song "Dark Star", 2012
• Dark Star, by Jaymes Young, 2013

Songs

• "Dark Star" (song), by the Grateful Dead
• "Dark Star", by Beck from The Information
• "Dark Star", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ
• "Dark Star", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN
• "Dark Star", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions
• "Dark Star", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay
• "Dark Star", by I Am Kloot from Natural History
• "Dark Star", by Mike Oldfield from Tubular Bells II
• "Dark Star", by Poliça from Give You the Ghost
• "Dark Star", by Tarja Turunen from What Lies Beneath
• "Dark Star", by Jaymes Young from his album of the same name

Video games

• DarkStar One, a 2006 video game
• Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, a 2010 video game
• Dark Star (No More Heroes), a character in the video game No More Heroes
• Dark Star, a malevolent artifact in the video game Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
• Dark Star (1984 video game), a 3D space shoot 'em up for the ZX Spectrum written by Simon Brattel for Design Design Software
• Darkstar, special weapon in a Sci-Fi MMOFPS PlanetSide 2

Technology

• Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar, an unmanned aerial vehicle
• Project Darkstar, a framework for creating massively multiplayer online games
• Tesla Roadster (2008), codenamed DarkStar, an electric sports car

Other uses

• Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, England
• Dark Star (cave), a cave system in Uzbekistan
• Dark Star (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

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• Black Star (disambiguation)
• Black Sun (disambiguation)
• Dark Sun (disambiguation)
• Dark (disambiguation)
• Star (disambiguation)

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