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“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 meteorite produces is called a meteor.
