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Real shooting stars exist, but they aren't the streaks you see in a clear night sky

  • Written by Idan Ginsburg, Academic Faculty in Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University
Real shooting stars exist, but they aren't the streaks you see in a clear night skySome stars travel at high speeds through the universe and sometimes leave spectacular clouds of dust and gas in their wake. NASA, ESA and R. Sahai (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory), CC BY

“I see thy glory like a shooting star.”

So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future in Shakespeare’s “Richard...

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