Question

What are shooting stars?Why they are termed so?

Answer 1

A shooting star is another name for a meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere. So, a shooting star isn't a star at all. Most of the shooting stars that we can see are known as meteoroids.

Answer 2

shooting stars are likely to be seen as a stars or it is the another name of meteoroid which is burnt and fastly move across the sky .meteors are most commonly known as found is falling stars or shooting stars