falling stars
Streaks across darkness
Falling stars are meteors—streaks of light caused by small pieces of space debris burning up as they enter Earth's atmosphere.
The name reflects the ancient impression that stars were falling from the sky.
Despite knowing better, we still call them falling stars and wish on them: I saw three falling stars last night.
- wishYearned-for outcome
- fireballLuminous meteor or explosion
- meteorGlowing atmospheric space rock
- bolideDetonating meteor, very bright
- streaksLong thin marks
meteor showers · shooting stars · make a wish · Geminids · sky · comet · Perseids · fleeting · cosmic dust · ephemerals · omen · luck · August · summer nights · myth · shower · glow · prophecy
- space rocksasteroid, asteroids, meteorites, meteorite, meteors
- sky loresun worship, sky gods, solar deities, zodiac, Milky Way
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- biblical heavenssun, moon, stars, heavens, firmament
celestial motion/direction
falling starsrising stars
Emerging promising talents
fixed stars · Polaris · constellations · North Star · suns