Space & Astronomy

Counting Shooting Stars

A speaker explains what shooting stars really are and remembers watching a meteor shower with their grandfather.

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1Have you ever seen a shooting star in the night sky?

2It is not really a star, but a small piece of rock.

3These rocks burn up when they enter the air around Earth.

4The bright line they make only lasts for a second.

5Sometimes many of them arrive together in a meteor shower.

6My grandfather and I watched a shower from his garden last August.

7We lay on blankets and counted more than twenty shooting stars.

8He said people once thought they were messages from the sky.

9Now we know they are just dust from old comets.

10Next summer, we plan to watch the shower again together.

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