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 * ''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== {{Wikicommons}} * {{lookfrom}} * {{intitle}} * Starburster, a song by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C.