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"Shooting stars" are more properly called "meteors". They are space rocks - more often "space sand" - that falls into the Earth's atmosphere and is heated to incandescence (glowing hot). Most burn up completely in the atmosphere.

They do occur all over the world, and there are thousands per day.

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