Stardust may refer to several concepts:

In space and aviation:

• Cosmic dust of interstellar origin
• Stardust (spacecraft), a spacecraft designed to return samples from a comet's coma
• Star Dust (aeroplane), a British airliner that crashed on the Argentine/Chile border in 1947

In music:

• Lady Stardust a song by Singer Songwriter, Lisa Miskovsky
• "Stardust", a 1927 jazz-pop song by Hoagy Carmichael
• Stardust (musical), a 1987 Broadway musical featuring songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Leroy Anderson
• Stardust (album), a record album by Willie Nelson
• Stardust (band), a house music group that released the club song "Music Sounds Better with You"
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, a 1972 album by David Bowie
• Stardust Promotion, a Japanese company
• Stardust (radio format), a satellite music service distributed by ABC Radio Networks

In books, film and television:

• Stardust (novel), an illustrated novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Stardust (2007 film), the film adaptation of the above book
• Stardust (1990 novel), a 1990 novel by Robert B. Parker
• Stardust (1974 film), a film about a rock star, starring David Essex.
• Star Dust (1940 film), a film with Linda Darnell and John Payne
• Stardust Memories, a 1980 film by Woody Allen
• "Stardust" (Space: Above and Beyond episode), an episode of the television show Space: Above and Beyond

In comics and anime:

• Stardust the Super Wizard, a superhero written and drawn by Fletcher Hanks
• Stardust (Femforce), a fictional superheroine appearing in the Femforce comic, published by AC Comics
• Stardust (Marvel Comics), a Herald to Galactus in Marvel comics
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, an anime set in the Gundam universe
• Operation Stardust, a fictional event in the Universal Century of the Gundam metaseries

Other uses:

• Stardust (game), a shoot 'em up computer game
• Stardust Resort & Casino, a former casino and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Stardust Speed Club, an inline speed skating team based out of Greenacres, Florida and Tampa, Florida
• A colloquial name for the drug phencyclidine
• Stardust fire, a fire which killed 48 people on Valentine's Day 1981 in a Dublin nightclub
• Stardust (magazine), a popular Indian film magazine

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to become a star. Based partly on Darnells' early experiences in Hollywood. Wharton is a parody of Zanuck. Written by Ed Stephan