Dark Star
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The terms Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:
[edit] Aerospace and astronomy
- Dark star, a theoretical star whose gravity is strong enough to trap light, mostly superseded by the concept of "black holes".
- RQ-3 Dark Star, a military drone developed by the United States
[edit] Pop culture
- Dark Star (band), an English rock band
- Dark Star (metal band), an 80's metal band
- Dark Star (film), a 1974 film directed by John Carpenter
- "Dark Star", a song by Deine Lakaien
- "Dark Star", a song on the Crosby, Stills & Nash album
- "Dark Star", the second movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II
- Dark Star (song), a song by the Grateful Dead
- Darkstar (Marvel Comics), a Marvel superhero and sometimes villain
- Darkstars, a DC Comics superhero team
- Dark Star (novel), a novel by Alan Furst
- An alternate name for The Rappers Rapp Group, a group of rap artists in the 1980s
- Dark Star (Slayers), a villain from the fantasy anime series Slayers Try
[edit] Technology
- Darkstar Linux, a distribution of the GNU/Linux computer operating system
- Project Darkstar, Sun's MMOG Server middleware
[edit] Other
- Dark Star (brewery), in Sussex, England.
- Dark Star (horse), an American racehorse who won the 1953 Kentucky Derby
- Dark Star (bass pickup), a bass guitar pickup by Hammon Engineering
- Eugene DarkStar, a club Ultimate frisbee team
- Darkstar Skateboards, a skateboarding company
- Darkstar One, a computer game released in 2006
- Darkstar (computer game), a computer game currently under development
- Dark Star (C64 game), a game for the Commodore 64