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

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