# Starburst

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'''Starburst''' most often refers to:
* [Starburst region](/source/Starburst_region), a generic term to describe a region of space with a much higher than normal star formation
* [Starburst galaxy](/source/Starburst_galaxy), a galaxy with an exceptionally high rate of star formation
* [Starburst (candy)](/source/Starburst_(candy)), a brand of fruit-flavored candy

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'''Starburst''' may also refer to:

==Culture==
* [Starburst (''Farscape'')](/source/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](/source/The_First_Duty).

===Publications===
* [''Starburst'' (magazine)](/source/Starburst_(magazine)), a British science fiction-related magazine, first published in 1977
* [''Starburst'' (Alfred Bester)](/source/Starburst_(Alfred_Bester)), a collection of short stories by science-fiction author Alfred Bester, 1958
* [''Starburst'' (Frederik Pohl)](/source/Starburst_(Frederik_Pohl)), a science-fiction novel by Frederik Pohl, written as an expansion of his novella ''[The Gold at the Starbow's End](/source/The_Gold_at_the_Starbow's_End)''

===Music===
* "Starburst", a song by Danny Brown from ''[Stardust](/source/Stardust_(Danny_Brown_album))'', 2025

==Other uses==
* [Starburst (business)](/source/Starburst_(business)), or corporate spin-off, the breaking up of a large company
* [Starburst (symbol)](/source/Starburst_(symbol)), a symbol consisting of a star surrounded by rays emanating from it
* [Starburst (missile)](/source/Starburst_(missile)), a British man-portable surface-to-air missile (MANPADS)
* [Fourteen-segment display](/source/Fourteen-segment_display) or Starburst display, an alphanumeric display configuration
* [StarBurst](/source/StarBurst), an office suite of the early 1980s
* ''[Clerodendrum quadriloculare](/source/Clerodendrum_quadriloculare)'', a tropical flowering plant that is also called a starburst
* [Cross screen filter](/source/Cross_screen_filter) or Starburst filter, a type of lens filter that creates patterns of lines to radiate from bright points
* [Diffraction spike](/source/Diffraction_spike), or a line radiating from a bright light source that can occur in a photograph or vision.
* [Starburst amacrine cell](/source/Starburst_amacrine_cell)
* [Starburst anemone](/source/Starburst_anemone)
* [Starburst effect](/source/Starburst_effect)
* [Galaxea](/source/Galaxea), or starburst, a type of coral.
* [Imshaugia](/source/Imshaugia), or starbust lichens.
** [Imshaugia placorodia](/source/Imshaugia_placorodia), or the American starbust lichen.

==See also==
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* [Starburster](/source/Starburster), a song by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C.

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