• They are meteors

  • They are the debris which got separated from a comet

  • They emit light due to extremely high temperature caused by friction while they are passing through earths atmosphere

  • They are a kind of a star


Shooting stars look like stars that quickly shoot across the sky, but they are not stars. A shooting star is really a small piece of rock or dust that hits Earths atmosphere from space. It moves so fast that it heats up and glows as it moves through the atmosphere.

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