Starburst

Starburst most often refers to:

• Starburst region, a generic term to describe a region of space with a much higher than normal star formation
• Starburst galaxy, a galaxy with an exceptionally high rate of star formation
• Starburst (candy), a brand of fruit-flavored candy

Starburst may also refer to:

Culture

• Starburst (Farscape), a means of faster-than-light propulsion in the television series Farscape
• Kolvoord Starburst, a maneuver from the Star Trek episode The First Duty.

Publications

• Starburst (magazine), a British science fiction-related magazine, first published in 1977
• Starburst (Alfred Bester), a collection of short stories by science-fiction author Alfred Bester, 1958
• Starburst (Frederik Pohl), a science-fiction novel by Frederik Pohl, written as an expansion of his novella The Gold at the Starbow's End

Music

• "Starburst", a song by Danny Brown from Stardust, 2025

Other uses

• Starburst (business), or corporate spin-off, the breaking up of a large company
• Starburst (symbol), a symbol consisting of a star surrounded by rays emanating from it
• Starburst (missile), a British man-portable surface-to-air missile (MANPADS)
• Fourteen-segment display or Starburst display, an alphanumeric display configuration
• StarBurst, an office suite of the early 1980s
• Starburst (slot game), a popular online slot machine developed by NetEnt and released in 2012.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Clerodendrum quadriloculare, a tropical flowering plant that is also called a starburst
• Cross screen filter or Starburst filter, a type of lens filter that creates patterns of lines to radiate from bright points
• Diffraction spike, or a line radiating from a bright light source that can occur in a photograph or vision.
• Starburst amacrine cell
• Starburst anemone
• Starburst effect
• Galaxea, or starburst, a type of coral.
• Imshaugia, or starbust lichens.
  • Imshaugia placorodia, or the American starbust lichen.

See also

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• Starburster, a song by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C.