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When some characters are having a peaceful night together, there's a good chance they will take a moment to admire the stars. They may try and MakeAWish (often with [[WishUponAShootingStar a shooting star]] though one can still [[CueTheShootingStar go by without any wish making happening), or point out constellations, or ponder the cosmic significance of human life, or even speculate about what's out there in space. Sometimes this leads to a romantic moment with the peaceful atmosphere, but the characters involved can be friends or family and the scene can still work. The moment could even feature a single character, which often gives the scene a much lonelier feeling.

When some characters are having a peaceful night together, there's a good chance they will take a moment to admire the stars. They may try and MakeAWish (often with [[WishUponAShootingStar a shooting star]]), or point out constellations, or ponder the cosmic significance of human life, or even speculate about what's out there in space. Sometimes this leads to a romantic moment with the peaceful atmosphere, but the characters involved can be friends or family and the scene can still work. The moment could even feature a single character, which often gives the scene a much lonelier feeling.

* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' has an unusually somber example. A distracted Ikaros is staring at a brilliant full moon when a suspicious Sugata confronts her about her identity, powers, and origins. Her dour responses convince him that as far as Ikaros is concerned, she ''is'' the blank slate she claims to be.
-->'''Sugata (to himself):''' So the problem becomes a question: who sent Ikaros to Tomoki?
* Chapter 56 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' has the student council watching the Autumn Moon. Kaguya tries to turn it into her latest BattleOfWits with Shirogane, but -in true YouWereTryingTooHard fashion- Shirogane's innocent love of the stars turns him into a full-blown romantic that reduces her to putty in his hands.

* ComicBook/{{Elfquest}}:

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' has a scene where the titular robot gazes wistfully into the night sky, which shows how [[TheAloner lonely]] he is on the post apocalyptic earth.

* The star watching scene in ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' made it onto the movie poster. Clementine takes Joel on a romantic trip onto a frozen lake where they lay down and watch the stars. Clementine asks Joel which constellations he knows but he doesn't know any, so he makes one up. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/UON6hsbQp2M?t=79 here]].

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'': In the minigame Star Catchers, all players stand on a house's balcony and look at the sky during an early evening (at that time, the Sun is almost done setting). When the minigame begins, stars will begin appearing one by one and whoever points at it first (done with the stylus in the Touch Screen) will claim it. Each claimed star will have a color that tells who claimed it: Blue for Player 1, red for Player 2, green for Player 3, and yellow for Player 4. After 30 seconds, the minigame ends, and then the pointed stars will begin disappearing four by four (one from each player), making it so only the remaining stars from the player who claimed the most remains, though those will then begin disappearing one by one at a faster rate. This player is then declared the winner. It's actually possible for two or more players to celebrate a tie if they end up claiming the same amount of stars, because this is a Battle Minigame.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': The intro cutscene shows Mario and friends gazing up at a sky sparkling with Mini-Stars, but their stargazing party is halted when Bowser creates a black hole that causes them all to disappear, thus setting the game in motion. At the end of the game, the gang pick up where they left off after the Mini-Stars have been rescued.
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyIslandTour'': In the minigame Starring Artist, the characters stand onto a balcony and look upward to see the starry sky. When the minigame starts, some lines connecting certain stars will be shown, and each character has to use the touch screen of the 3DS to draw within those lines to reveal a constellation (modeled after a classic ''Mario'' enemy). The characters who draw faster will receive more points (the one who takes the longest won't get to finish the drawing, and thus won't earn anything). After three rounds of drawing, whoever scored the highest wins.
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartySuperstars'': The achievements that can be completed during the course of the gameplay are represented in a night sky as stars that form constellations. When an achievement is met, its star shines; it's possible to see these constellations from Kamek's crystal ball in the Data House, and they're modeled after objects like a Warp Pipe, a Dice Block, [[ShapedLikeItself or a Super Star]]. Looking further up in the sky reveals an extra constellation shaped like a crown, whose stars represent online achievements.

** In ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' TheHero converses with Odessa while staring at the stars, and Odessa tells him her wishes and goals for the resistance.
** In ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' [[ChickMagnet Flik]] has a scene with Nina staring up at the stars before a large battle. During which he talks about Odessa his first love.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': At the end of the sixth episode, after being rescued from a deep well filled with sunken sculptures, Chris witnesses night's beautiful starry sky alongside the ones who rescued him (his pet dog Lon and two Mayan friends he met along the way). Chris is told about how their ancestors manifest themselves in the sky as the stars that are seen during night after overcoming the trials of the afterlife. This ending makes the episode unique for the series, because it's the only one that doesn't end with Chris waking up in the real world (as all episodes, including this one, are each AllJustADream).

* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': At the end of the sixth episode, after being rescued from a deep well filled with sunken sculptures, Chris witnesses night's beautiful starry sky alongside the ones who rescued him (his pet dog Lon and two Mayan friends he met along the way). Chris is told about how their ancestors manifest themselves in the sky as the stars that are seen during night after overcoming the trials of the afterlife. This ending makes the episode unique for the series, because it's the only one that doesn't end with Chris waking up in the real world (as all episodes, including this one, are each All Just a Dream).

** At the end of the first season at a time when Angelica is dying on a hospital bed, Triela convinces their handlers to take them out to the training range to see a meteor shower. Their handlers are bemused when their cyborg assassins start singing StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy in German as they watch. Angelica also watches the shower from her hospital bed, the same song playing on her stereo from a disc one of the girls left for her.

* ''Literature/TheBeach'': Richard and Francoise had a night on the beach taking pictures of the stars. Richard starts talking about parallel universes, and in his internal monologue, discusses how he's become infatuated with Francoise as the two mess around with the star camera.

* The episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokkasMaster Sokka's Master]]" of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' starts with the main characters lying on a hill at night, watching a meteor shower.[[note]]Well, okay, Toph isn't. "[[DisabledSnarker Eh, you've seen nothing once, you've seen it a million times]]"[[/note]] Unfortunately, their relaxation is interrupted when a meteor lands close by, starting a fire that threatens a nearby town.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': While stopping for the night as they escort Fiona to Duloc, Shrek and Donkey stare at the night sky, as Shrek points out the constellations, [[FictionalConstellations all of which are about famous ogres]].

** "Vincent and the Doctor" also features Eleven and Amy stargazing, along with Creator/VincentVanGogh. He shows them how he sees the world, [[spoiler: turning the whole night sky into a version of his famous painting, ''The Starry Night''.]]

** Last but not least, there's an implication that Mira and Ao do that frequently together after they reunited. Before [[spoiler:Chapter 30/ Episode 9, when Ao starts [[InnocentCohabitation living in Mira's house]]]], they usually so stargazing on their own balconies while chatting over stars on the phone, the first time of which being animated at the end of the first episode.

* ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'': In the minigame Star Catchers, all players stand on a house's balcony and look at the sky during an early evening (at that time, the Sun is almost done setting). When the minigame begins, stars will begin appearing one by one and whoever points at it first (done with the stylus in the Touch Screen) will claim it. Each claimed star will have a color that tells who claimed it: Blue for Player 1, red for Player 2, green for Player 3, and yellow for Player 4. After 30 seconds, the minigame ends, and then the pointed stars will begin disappearing four by four (one from each player), making it so only the remaining stars from the player who claimed the most remains, though those will then begin disappearing one by one at a faster rate. This player is then declared the winner. It's actually possible for two or more players to celebrate a tie if they end up claiming the same amount of stars, because this is a Battle Minigame.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. At the end of "Green Eyed Monster" Aeryn Sun vents to John Crichton over how their InterspeciesRomance has ruined her previously well-ordered life. Crichton coaxes her into joining him at a spaceship window looking out onto a nebula, and shows her a mock starchart he's making, with Aeryn as his guiding star. Said star twinkles as they have a BigDamnKiss.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. At the end of "Green Eyed Monster" Aeryn Sun vents to John Crichton over how their InterspeciesRomance has ruined her previously well-ordered life. Crichton coaxes her into joining him at a spaceship window looking out onto a nebula, and shows her a mock starchart he's making, with Aeryn as his guiding star.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. At the end of "Green Eyed Monster" Aeryn Sun vents to John Crichton over how their InterspeciesRomance has ruined her previously well-ordered life. Crichton coaxes her into joining him at the window looking out onto a starfield, and shows her a mock starchart he's making, with Aeryn as his guiding star.