What are "Shooting Starts" and how do they occur?

Answer 1

A "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!

Answer 2

Hi,in our universe there are lot of heavenly body,star,planet,black hole,neutron star, etc etc,
shooting star is also called meteor,,these are remain of dead star,containing some stone like substance,when these meteor enter to earth atmosphere ,due to gravity earth pull it toward its center ,after some time due to friction it get high speed as result it become hot even glow light,
one question how star dead,most of heavenly body contain Hydrogen(H2) and Helium(He),,in these heavenly object through process of fusion Hydrogen converted into Helium,When all Hydrogen converted into Helium ,,then star die,but what shape will apear this dead star depend upon mass of dead star

Answer 3

Shooting Stars (I assume you mean star, not start), is a meteor which has collided with the earth's atmosphere, and is burning up on its way in.

Answer 4

small comets and meteors entering the atmosphere and burning up

Answer 5

they are meteoroids bursting and burning up while falling into earth.