Dark Star
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The terms Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:
[edit] Astronomy
- Dark star, a theoretical star whose gravity is strong enough to trap light, mostly superseded by the concept of "black holes"
- Dark star (dark matter), a more modern theoretical type of star that may have existed early in the history of the universe
[edit] Popular culture
- Dark Star (band), an English rock band
- Dark Star (film), a 1974 film directed by John Carpenter
- Dark Star (song), a song by the Grateful Dead
- Dark Star, a song by Harold Budd
- Dark Star, a song by Beck
- Dark Star, a song by Deine Lakaien
- Dark Star, a song on the Crosby, Stills & Nash album CSN
- Dark Star, the second movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II
- Dark Star, a song on the I Am Kloot album Natural History
- Darkstar (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 Rap Group, a group of rap artists in the 1980s
- Dark Star (Slayers), a villain from the fantasy anime series Slayers Try
- Dark Star (magazine), a British rock magazine that also featured early work by Alan Moore and the first appearance of Axel Pressbutton
- Darkstar Comics, is the fictional comic book company that the character Tim Bisley in the British television show Spaced dreams to be employed at.
[edit] Technology
- Darkstar Communications, an International Ventrilo, Teamspeak, and Gaming provider
- DarkStar, code name of the Tesla Roadster electric sports car
- Darkstar, default hostname in Slackware
- Project Darkstar, Sun's free game server framework
- RQ-3 DarkStar, a military drone developed by the United States
[edit] Computer and video games
- Darkstar One, a computer game released in 2006
- Dark Star, a character from the 2008 video game No More Heroes
[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