starfield

plural starfields

1. A starry backdrop.

   a classic space starfield effect that you can plug into your movies

   2006, Alex Michael, Animating with Flash 8

   2 more examples

   This paper describes continuing research on metaphoric abstractions in developing an interface that employs the starfield (the night sky) as its underlying metaphor.

   1996, Celestine A Ntuen, Eui H Park, Human Interaction with Complex Systems

   A practiced eye can detect the effects of advanced civilizations on a starfield, as technologies harness and affect the raw radiation emitted by so many stars.

   2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 4, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 65