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S. What is shooting star? Why is it called the shooting star?

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Answered by pallavi8221
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These streaks are called meteors, often nicknamed 'shooting stars' or 'falling stars'. ... On a clear night, if you stare at the sky for long enough, you will see one of these meteors, or shooting stars. At certain times of the year, the Earth passes through a comet trail.

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What causes a "falling star"?

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Digital image of meteor showerA "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor. Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars. If any part of the meteoroid survives burning up and actually hits the Earth, that remaining bit is then called a meteorite.At certain times of year, you are likely to see a great number of meteors in the night sky. These events are called meteor showers and they occur when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet as it orbits the Sun. These showers are given names based on the constellation present in the sky from which they appear to originate. For example, the Leonid Meteor Shower, or Leonids, appear to originate in the constellation Leo. It is important to understand that the meteoroids (and therefore the meteors) do not really originate from the constellations or any of the stars in the constellations, however. They just seem to come from that part of the sky because of the way the Earth encounters the particles moving in the path of the comet's orbit.Associating the shower name with the region of the sky they seem to come from just helps astronomers know where to look!

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