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Jitendra Singh • 7.50K Points
Tutor III Reasoning

  • (A) They are meteors
  • (B) They are the debris which got separated from a comet
  • (C) They emit light due to extremely high temperature caused by friction while they are passing through earth's atmosphere
  • (D) They are a kind of a star
Correct Answer - Option(D)

Explanation by: Jitendra Singh
Shooting stars look like stars that quickly shoot across the sky, but they are not stars. A shooting star is really a small piece of rock or dust that hits Earth's atmosphere from space. It moves so fast that it heats up and glows as it moves through the atmosphere.

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