Evening Star

Evening star may refer to:

(The Star Wars Ship)

Astronomy

• The planet Venus when it appears in the west (evening sky), after sunset
  • The ancient Greeks gave it the name Hesperus
• Less commonly, the planet Mercury when it appears in the west (evening sky) after sunset

Plants

• Oenothera biennis, a medicinal plant
• Mentzelia pumila (Velcro Stickleaf) and other species of Mentzelia

Arts and entertainment

• "Evening Star", a noted extract from Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser
• "Evening Star", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Evening Star, a 1996 sequel to the film Terms of Endearment
• Evening Star (album), by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno
• "Evening Star" (Kenny Rogers song), 1984
• "Evening Star" (Judas Priest song), from their 1978 album Killing Machine
• "Evening Star", a song from the album Destroyer of the Void by alternative country band Blitzen Trapper
• "Evening Star", a song from the album Valley of the Damned by power metal band Dragonforce
• "Evening Star", a song from the 1992 album Death or Glory? by Roy Harper
• Evening Star (video game), a 1987 train simulator

Other uses

• Evening Star (newspaper), a list of newspapers
• BR 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways
• Exercise Evening Star, the annual demonstration of emergency response to a submarine nuclear accident at Faslane, HMNB Clyde, Argyll, Scotland
• Evening Star (pub) in Brighton, England

See also

• Luceafărul (poem) ("The Evening Star"), a 1883 poem by Mihai Eminescu
• "Abendstern" ("Evening Star", ), a poem by Johann Mayrhofer
• Arwen, an elf-maiden in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings is also referred to as "Undomiel", elvish for "Evenstar"
• Morning star (disambiguation)
• Evenstar (disambiguation)