Shooting star is a common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere, becoming a meteor.
What is a highly magnetized, rotating, neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth (known as the lighthouse effect)?
On 13th March 1781 a heavenly body was observed, announced and named Georgium Sidus, a star; it was not the first time the star had been observed. Eventually it became known as what?
