History Main / TheStarsAreGoingOut

* In the AnimatedMusicVideo for Music/TupperwareRemixParty's "Music/StarlightBrigade", a sinister black polyhedron absorbs all of the stars in the sky. The protagonist blasts off with the Brigade to fight it and free the stars.

The news is reporting that there's an increase of suicides among scientists. There are protests going on right now in front of the UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} building in Washington, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the Kennedy Space Center, and, strangely enough, the Large Hadron Collider. Perhaps they think it has something to do with the stars going out. Who knows. Who cares. At least it's not a BadMoonRising, that would [[IncrediblyLamePun ruin the song]] for all of us.

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* {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' review of the below-mentioned ''WesternAnimation/BarbieStarLightAdventure'', where Creator/BradJones jokes about how this trope should by all rights [[NoEndorHolocaust result in an immediate mass extinction event]] [[ApocalypseHow on a universal scale]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieStarLightAdventure'' has this as the focus of the plot. One by one the stars are going out, and no one seems to know why.

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The news is reporting that there's an increase of suicides among scientists. There are protests going on right now in front of the NASA building in Washington, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the Kennedy Space Center, and, strangely enough, the Large Hadron Collider. Perhaps they think it has something to do with the stars going out. Who knows. Who cares. At least it's not a BadMoonRising, that would [[IncrediblyLamePun ruin the song]] for all of us.

* The song "If" by Music/{{Bread|}} includes these lyrics:

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor Great Attractor]] is a potential explanation for a strange phenomenon that appears to be affecting the speed at which the Milky Way and other galaxies in the Lanikea cluster, our cosmic back garden, are moving through space. Interestingly, this phenomenon could explain discrepancies in the estimated number of galaxies in the cluster compared to the increasing number being identified; the galaxies aren’t going out, but they’re impossible to see with telescopes on the ground since they're ''behind'' the Milky Way's arms from Earth's perspective, in a place called the 'Zone of Avoidance' (it obstructs the view of around 20% of the extragalactic sky). A recent survey [[https://www.space.com/31872-hidden-galaxies-behind-milky-way-revealed.html discovered a whopping 883 galaxies]] "hiding" out of sight, and considering how many stars galaxies contain, that's a lot of stars we previously didn't know existed, to put it bluntly.

* On the other hand, if you live in a sufficiently light-polluted [[CityMouse urban area]], you might go most of your life having never seen [[NightmareRetardant any significant number of stars]]. Traveling somewhere [[CountryMouse with less nighttime illumination]] (or experiencing a regional blackout) might cause a considerable shock; the difference is quite striking in these pictures of [[http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Documents/pollution-blackout-140803-toronto.jpg the sky over Toronto]] with and without the city lights.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip The Big Rip]], a recent hypothesis about how the universe might end, posits that the universe will just keep on accelerating its expansion until overriding the four fundamental forces of the universe (gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces). Galaxies fly apart as the stars pull away, the stars darken and planets disintegrate as their component particles lose all ability to bond, until finally the particles themselves decay into nothingness. But don't worry. According to the authors of the hypothesis, all of that's still 50 billion years away from happening, give or take.

* The Music/{{Genesis|Band}} song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o02v0hkq3IA The Day The Light Went Out]]" is about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. ''Something'' arrives here on Earth and puts out the light... and then, it prepares ''[[NightmareFuel to feed]]''...

* One of the first signs in ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'' that [[spoiler:the sun station is not the cause of the sun going supernova. If you pay attention throughout the course of a cycle, the stars are slowly exploding into dust one by one, until there's barely any left at all by the time the sun goes supernova.]]

* ''Literature/{{Starchild}}'': Only a few, and only temporarily, but it includes the Sun. The Starchild uses this to warn Earth that it means business.

* The trope name comes from Creator/ArthurCClarke's [[http://downlode.org/Etext/nine_billion_names_of_god.html "The Nine Billion Names of God"]], wherein a Tibetan monastery buys a computer and hires two technicians to automate their order's mission of calculating and writing down all the names of {{God}}. They believe that this is the ultimate purpose of the universe -- and thus when it's over, {{God}} will simply shut everything down. The technicians don't believe that, and plan to leave on the night the computer will finish, to avoid [[TorchesAndPitchforks the rush]]. Just as they're about to depart, they look up...

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Meet the Pegasus'': The result of [[spoiler:Wolffy using a magic attack that cracks through the galaxy]] is a bunch of stars falling onto Pegasus City, destroying buildings and forcing the goats to save the pegasi. It's decided that pushing Pegasus City out of the way will alleviate the danger, with the goats and many of the pegasi pitching in.

* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'': This is one of the signs that reality is coming to an end as the stars rearrange themselves and gradually go out one by one. It is so blatantly illogically impossible that it is one of the first signs that [[spoiler: Earth has been pulled into the Dreamlands by Yog-Sothoth.]]