Shooting Stars

Under the direction of Diamond Head Theatre's award-winning Artistic Director John Rampage and his talented staff, the Diamond Head Theatre Shooting Stars feature some of Hawaii's most talented performers, ages

The Shooting Stars have entertained audiences for over 15 years with an extensive repertoire of show tunes and choreography.  They have performed in New York at City Center, and locally at Washington Place, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu Star-Advertiser ‘Ilima Awards, with the Honolulu POPS Concert, and in all 11 years of the Jim Nabors’ Christmas Show.  The Shooting Stars also staged their own productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Damn Yankees, 42^nd Street, Cinderella, Hello Dolly! and Into the Woods.

How does my child join Shooting Stars?

The Shooting Stars program holds auditions times each year. Audition information will be posted here when available. If you would like to sign up to receive email information when auditions are coming up, please contact Jared at: shootingstars@ingalex.de or call him at () x

THEME PARTIES

Special productions for "theme parties" are available at reasonable costs. If you would like more information on the Shooting Stars, or would like to set up a booking, please call Diamond Head Theatre at  ext. .

For any questions, please contact John Rampage at X

To be added to the email list to receive notifications on upcoming auditions please email shootingstars@ingalex.de

Meteor showers occur when dust or particles from asteroids or comets enter Earth's atmosphere at very high speed. When they hit the atmosphere, meteors rub against air particles and create friction, heating the meteors. The heat vaporizes most meteors, creating what we call shooting stars.

While there are stray bits of stuff hitting Earth from all directions, there also are regularly timed "meteor showers" when astronomers can make better predictions about how many meteors will hit the Earth, and from what direction. The key difference is that meteor showers occur when the Earth plows into the trail of particles left behind by a comet or asteroid. Depending on where the trail of particles falls in a particular year, meteor showers can be more or less intense.

Astronomers sometimes even find new meteor showers, such as the case of the Camelopardalids in Initial predictions put the shower at up to meteors per hour, but in reality, it ended up being a quiet shower for amateur astronomers. The shower became active after the debris trail of Comet P/LINEAR intersected with Earth. (The debris trail of comets can shift because of the influence of Jupiter, or other reasons.)

Related: Amazing photos of the Perseid meteor shower

Most meteors become visible at around 60 miles ( kilometers) up. Some large meteors splatter, causing a brighter flash called a fireball, which can often be seen during the day and heard up to 30 miles (48 km) away. On average, meteors can speed through the atmosphere at about 30, mph (48, kph) and reach temperatures of about 3, degrees Fahrenheit (1, degrees Celsius). 

Most meteors are very small, some as tiny as a grain of sand, so they disintegrate in the air. Larger ones that reach the Earth's surface are called meteorites and are rare.

Whether an object breaks apart depends on its composition, speed and angle of entry. A faster meteor at an oblique angle (slanting rather than straight-on) suffers greater stress. Meteors made of iron withstand the stress better than those of stone. Even an iron meteor will usually break up as the atmosphere becomes denser, around 5 to 7 miles (8 to 11 km) up.

Impacting Earth

When meteorites do hit the ground, their speed is roughly half what it was upon entry, and they blast out craters 12 to 20 times their size. Craters on Earth form much as they would on the moon or any rocky planet. Smaller objects create bowl-shaped craters. Larger impacts cause a rebound that creates a central peak; slipping along the rim forms terraces. The largest impacts form basins in which multiple rebounds form several inner peaks.

Large meteors can explode above the surface, causing widespread damage from the blast and ensuing fire. This happened in over Siberia, in what's called the Tunguska event. On June 30, , across hundreds of miles, witnesses saw a ball of fire streak through the sky, suggesting the meteor entered the atmosphere at an oblique angle. It exploded, sending out hot winds and loud noises and shook the ground enough to break windows in nearby villages. Small particles blown into the atmosphere lit the night sky for several days. No meteorite was ever found, and for years many scientists thought the devastation was caused by a comet. Now, the prevailing theory holds that a meteor exploded just above the surface.

A similar event occurred over Chelyabinsk, Russia, when a meter rock exploded 12 to 15 miles above the Earth's surface on Feb. 15, , damaging buildings and injuring more than 1, people. According to a statement by Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario in Canada, "The energy of the resulting explosion exceeded kilotons of TNT" — 30 to 40 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

Although the Russian event brought into focus the possible danger Earth could suffer from space rocks, most meteors don't cause nearly as much damage. Still, NASA and other entities keep careful track of all asteroids visible from Earth, and are actively engaged in discovering as many asteroids as possible — especially the ones that are larger and would pose more of a (theoretical) threat to Earth. Asteroid orbits are plotted and tracked to see if they will intersect with Earth in the future. While no imminently threatening object has been found, NASA continues the search and posts the results publicly on the Small Body Database Browser.

Meteors in history

In ancient times, objects in the night sky conjured superstition and were associated with gods and religion. But misunderstandings about meteors lasted longer than they did about most other celestial objects.

Meteorites (the pieces that make it to Earth) were long ago thought to be cast down as gifts from angels. Others thought the gods were displaying their anger. As late as the 17th century, many believed they fell from thunderstorms (they were nicknamed "thunderstones"). Many scientists were skeptical that stones could fall from the clouds or the heavens, and often they simply didn't believe the accounts of people who claimed to have seen such things.

In , a fireball exploded over Connecticut, and several meteorites rained down. By then the first handful of asteroids had been discovered, and a new theory emerged suggesting meteorites were broken bits off asteroids or other planets. (A theory that still holds.)

The largest meteorite recovered in the United States fell in a wheat field in southern Nebraska in Witnesses saw a giant fireball in the afternoon that some said was brighter than the sun. The meteorite was found buried 10 feet (3 meters) deep in the ground. It weighed 2, lbs. (1, kilograms).

The most famous meteorite crater in the United States is misnamed Meteor Crater. It's in Arizona, and it's huge. The rim rises feet (45 m) from the surrounding plain, and the hole is feet ( m) deep and nearly a mile wide. It was the first crater that was proven to be caused by a meteorite impact, which occurred between 20, and 50, years ago.

Annual meteor showers

Meteors are often seen falling from the sky alone — one here, one there. But there are certain times in a year when dozens or even hundreds of meteors per hour will light up the sky, seemingly coming from one part of the sky, radiating in all directions, and falling toward Earth one after the other.

There are several periodic meteor showers that astronomers and amateur observers wait for every year. Meteor showers are named after the constellations from where the shower appears to be coming from. For example, the Orionids appear to originate from the mighty Orion constellation, while Perseid meteors seem to be coming from the Perseus constellation.

Leonids: The brightest and most impressive is the Leonid meteor shower, which can produce a meteor storm that showers the sky with thousands of meteors per minute at its peak. In fact, the term "meteor shower" was coined after astronomers' observed one of Leonids' most impressive displays in The Leonids occur every November, but the shower's most beautiful display happens at intervals of about 33 years, with the last one lighting Earth's sky in ; it is not expected to be repeated until

Related: Amazing Leonid meteor shower photos

Perseids: Another shower that is worth keeping awake for is the Perseid meteor shower, which is associated with the Comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes years to orbit the sun. Earth passes through the comet's orbit during the month of August every year. It is not as active as the Leonids, but it is the most widely watched meteor shower of the year, peaking on Aug. 12 with more than 60 meteors per minute.

Orionids: The Orionid meteor shower produces meteors from Halley's comet, which orbits the sun every 75 to 76 years. The Orionid shower happens every October and can last for a week, treating patient observers to a show of 50 to 70 shooting stars per hour at its peak.

Related: Orionid meteor shower sparks bright fireballs (video)

Quadrantids: The Quadrantid meteor shower comes from the debris of an asteroid called EH1, which some astronomers think was part of a comet that broke apart centuries ago. The debris enters Earth's atmosphere in early January and offers astronomers and other observers a brief show.

Related: Spectacular Quadrantid meteor photos

Geminids: Like the Quadrantids, the Geminid meteor shower also came from dust particles of an asteroid, this time a near-earth asteroid called Phaeton. Meteor showers are mostly from comets, so having an asteroid as parents make the Quadrantids and Geminids different from other meteor showers. The Geminids happen in December and spray up to 40 meteors per hour out of the Gemini constellation at its peak.

Other meteor showers to watch out for are the Eta Aquarids, also remnants of Halley's comet, in May; and the Lyrids, which have been chronicled for more than 2, years, in late April.

Observing tips

People living in the Northern Hemisphere are in the best position to observe the most beautiful meteor showers. For example, North America is right below the region of the sky where the January Quadrantids shower appears.

A bright moon can dim the prospect of seeing a good meteor shower, drowning out all but the brightest meteors. Local light pollution dampens prospects, too, so the best place to view a meteor shower is from out in a rural location.

Most meteor showers are best viewed in the pre-dawn hours, when the part of Earth you are standing on is facing the direction of Earth's orbit. It's like bugs hitting a car's windshield. In the late evening hours, on the other hand, the meteors are less frequent — loosely akin to bugs hitting a car's rear bumper.

Meteor showers can be seen at different times of the year depending on when Earth is going to pass through the comet's or asteroid's path. Some meteor showers happen annually; others only appear over a period of several years, while some of the best shows — meteor storms — happen just once or twice in a lifetime.

Weather can also hamper a good view of meteor showers. A clear sky is a gift to night gazers, which is why meteor showers during the summer are more anticipated than those that fall in the winter months. If you want to try and capture a meteor shower yourself, we have a guide to the best cameras for astrophotography and the best lenses for astrophotography, to get you all started.

This article was updated on Sept. 22, by ingalex.de Senior Writer Meghan Bartels. 

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single by Bag Raiders

"Shooting Stars" is a song by Australian electronic duo Bag Raiders. The song was originally featured on the band's EP, Turbo Love, in ^[2] The year afterwards, the song was released as a single from their eponymous debut album Bag Raiders, and reached number 18 in the Triple J Hottest countdown of Although the song was released and charted in Australia in , the song did not reach its peak there until It received international attention in February when the song became a part of a popular internet meme, thus cementing the track's legacy as a sleeper hit. The song reached number 11 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 9 on the BillboardBubbling Under chart that year. The vocals on the song are performed by Rhys Taylor.^[3]

In , the song was listed at number 29 in In the Mix's ' Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time' with Dave Ruby Howe saying "[it] was a bright, euphoric tonic with an instantly-classic chorus".^[4]

History[edit]

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Jack Glass, a member of the band, said that the single inspired him to create their self-titled album, claiming that "people loved Shooting Stars so much and we liked that direction of songwriting and developing a pop sensibility ourselves, too." Glass also said that the band also played half of the song in clubs before the band had realized that "people liked it and wanted to hear the whole thing."^[5]

Composition[edit]

The song is composed in G minor and a tempo of BPM. It also contains the interesting oddity of a melody played on the Stylophone, which is one of only a few examples of the Stylophone's use in professional music composition. The song's chorus is only played at the end of the song.^[6] The bass player is switched between the two band members in the verse and chorus.^[7]

Reception[edit]

"Shooting Stars" was well received by music critics. Andrew Murfett of The Sydney Morning Herald described the song as "peppy track" and compared the song to works of Daft Punk.^[5]

Revival[edit]

In , "Shooting Stars" was used on Australia's Got Talent by contestant Tommy Franklin, which led to the song entering the top 40 of the ARIA Singles Chart nearly four years after it was originally released due to downloads.^[8]

After the death of Harambe the gorilla in May , an animated tribute featuring the song, using clips from Ego's music video for "The Crazy Things We Do", spread on the internet.^[9] In , the song received greater international attention when the song became a part of a popular internet meme. The video that boosted the popularity of the meme was an upload on Reddit titled "Fat man does amazing dive".^[10] In the meme, the song is usually accompanied with people falling with surreal, spacey backgrounds.^[11] Chris Stracey, a member of the band, reacted to the meme, saying "At first we were like, ok this is funny I guess, but I didn't really get it so I thought "alright whatever". Once I started seeing a common theme though, such as the big guy jumping off the bridge into the river, that was the first one of the more recent stuff that really got me. So good! That and the Lady Gaga one is so funny [referring to a mashup with Gaga’s performance during the Super Bowl LI halftime]."^[12]

The song and its corresponding meme was later featured in the music video for the Katy Perry song "Swish Swish".^[13]

New York Magazine referred to the meme as the "first big post-Vine meme."^[10] Meanwhile, Daily Dot compared the meme to Neil Cicierega's viral video, Brodyquest.^[14]

On 6 December , Shooting Stars (along with the popular meme associated within the song) is featured in YouTube Rewind: The Shape of .^[15]

The song on YouTube has over million views as of October ^[16]

Track listings[edit]

12" maxi^[17]

1. "Shooting Stars" –
2. "Shooting Stars" (Siriusmo Remix) –
3. "Shooting Stars" (Kris Menace Remix) –
4. "Shooting Stars" (In Flagranti Remix) –

Covers[edit]

The song was first covered by Hidden Cat in ^[18] The song was later covered by American progressive house producer Elephante in ^[19] In , Australian producer POOLCLVB and singer MARSHES officially released a cover of the song, although this cover was first uploaded to YouTube in ^{[20][better&#;source&#;needed]}

Charts[edit]

Certifications[edit]

Appearances in other media[edit]

The song was featured during the end credits of Season 1, Episode 6 of the HBO series How to Make It in America.^[35] In , Madeon featured the song in his mashup, "Pop Culture".^[36] The song was also featured on the soundtrack to NBA 2K16, in the playlist "Around the World".^[37]

References[edit]

An old superstition suggests that if you wish upon a shooting star, your wish will be granted. The implication is that shooting stars are so rare, and your sighting so fortuitous, that you've been specially selected for a dose of good luck. 

But are shooting stars actually all that elusive? And what are they, exactly?

A shooting star is a "common, if inaccurate, name for a meteor," or a space rock that collides with Earth's atmosphere, said Edwin Charles Krupp, an astronomer and director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. 

Meteors that are called shooting stars appear as "a flash of light" to sky-gazers, Krupp told Live Science. "This light is the visible trail of gases in Earth's upper atmosphere [that are] heated to incandescence by the high-speed passage of a meteoroid, or meteoric particle, intercepting the Earth." Quite simply, a "shooting star" is a piece of space rock or dust that briefly becomes visible when it begins to burn up in our planet's atmosphere. Much of this material comes from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Related: Why are asteroids and comets such weird shapes?

So, how common are shooting stars? How often do these flashy space rocks come into contact with Earth's atmosphere, and what's the best way to see them?

"Meteors occur all of the time, all over the Earth, but are only seen at night," Krupp said. Most extraterrestrial rubble that collides with the atmosphere is "very small, typically the size of a grain of sand," he added.

The number of meteors visible to the unaided eye under a truly dark sky in a hour period all over Earth is estimated to be 25 million, according to a University of Oregon report. However, Earth also intercepts many smaller particles that are too faint to be detected by the unaided eye, Krupp noted.

In the dark

If you want to see shooting stars, it's important to find a dark sky location, Krupp said. Dark sky sites have very low levels of light pollution and allow uninterrupted views of the night sky.

Since , the International Dark Sky Places conservation program, run by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDSA), has encouraged communities to "preserve dark sites through responsible lighting policies and public education." The IDSA also dictates whether a site can officially be called a "dark sky," and has, to date, awarded areas around the world dark sky status.

Certain sites have "gold-tier dark sky" status, which is the IDSA's highest possible rating. Some of the best dark sky areas include Northumberland National Park in England, the largest gold-tier dark sky park in Europe; the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve, the first gold-tier dark sky preserve in the United States; and the Atacama Desert in Chile, which contains La Silla Observatory, home to some of the world's most powerful telescopes. (You can see a comprehensive list of the world's best dark sky sites at this page from the International Dark-Sky Association.)

Unfortunately, and largely due to human activity, pristinely dark skies are increasingly hard to find. According to the "World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness," around 80% of the world's population lives under "skyglow," which the U.S. Department of Energy defines as "an increase in the apparent brightness of the night sky that can serve to reduce visibility for astronomical observation." In the U.S. and Europe, it's estimated that 99% of people live under some degree of skyglow.

Starlink, Elon Musk's internet-enabling satellite network, is also causing issues for astronomers. Once fully operational, there could be 42, Starlink satellites orbiting Earth, something that has led the International Astronomical Union to create the Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference to "mitigate the negative impact of satellite constellations."

Related: How did the Milky Way get its name?

For most people, Krupp said, seeing a shooting star is a rare event because "we have lost the night sky to light pollution," which "unnecessarily denies us the stars." Krupp also believes that many of us are guilty of being "busied by other things" and, as a result, often don't take the time to look at and admire the sky. But he is confident that a person who deliberately and purposefully watches the sky on a clear night from a location "untarnished by artificial light" will be able to see "five to 10 meteors per hour," if not more.

"All you've got to do is go outside, find a nice dark spot, lie flat on your back and look up," Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, previously told Live Science. "You don't want binoculars. You don't want a telescope. You just use your eyes." 

There are also times throughout the year when people are more likely to see shooting stars. Meteor showers, which occur when Earth annually passes through the "persistent ring of debris shed by a comet," give stargazers a much better chance of seeing a host of shooting stars. These events can be predicted to the day, thanks to the reliability of Earth's orbit around the sun. For instance, the Perseid meteor shower, which often peaks in August, can shower Earth with as many as 50 to visible meteors per hour.

Shooting stars are, it would appear, far more common than most people think — you just have to look up at the right time and be in the right place.

Originally published on Live Science.

Joe Phelan is a journalist based in London. His work has appeared in VICE, National Geographic, World Soccer and The Blizzard, and has been a guest on Times Radio. He is drawn to the weird, wonderful and under examined, as well as anything related to life in the Arctic Circle. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Chester. 

Shooting star refers to a meteor.

Shooting star may also refer to:

Film, television, and theater[edit]

• Shooting Star ( film), a Bulgarian short film
• Shooting Star ( film), a Canadian short film
• Shooting Stars (British TV series), a British comedy television show
• Shooting Stars (Singaporean TV series), a Singaporean TV drama
• Shooting Star (animated series), a television series by 41 Entertainment
• Star Trek: Phaser Strike (called Shooting Star in Germany, Italy and UK), a video game for the Microvision
• "Shooting Stars" (CSI), a sixth-season episode of CSI
• Shooting Star, a play by Steven Dietz
• Shooting Stars, a play by Molly Newman
• Shooting Stars ( film), a British drama film
• Shooting Stars ( film), a film
• Shooting Stars ( film), a West German drama film
• Shooting Stars ( film), a television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
• Shooting Stars ( film) ((Le ciel est à nous&#;[fr]), a French comedy produced by Richard Sadler
• "Shooting Star" (Glee), a episode of the television show Glee
• Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
• The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
• Shooting Stars (South Korean TV series), a television series

Literature[edit]

Music[edit]

Albums[edit]

Songs[edit]

• "Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star", by Boyzone
• "Shooting Star" (Air Traffic song),
• "Shooting Star" (Bad Company song),
• "Shooting Star" (David Rush song),
• "Shooting Star" (Deepest Blue song),
• "Shooting Star" (Disney song), from Disney's Hercules
• "Shooting Star" (Bob Dylan song),
• "Shooting Star" (Elton John song),
• "Shooting Star" (Modern Talking song),
• "Shooting Star" (Poison song),
• "Shooting Star" (Owl City song),
• "Shooting Star" (Tara McDonald song),
• "Shooting Stars" (Bag Raiders song),
• "Shooting Stars" (Dragon song),
• "Shooting Star" by The Mamas & the Papas, from the album People Like Us
• "Shooting Star", by Lou Reed, from the album Street Hassle
• "Shooting Star", by Cross Gene
• "Shooting Star", a dance single by Bang!, covered by Flip & Fill
• "Shooting Star" by Harry Chapin, from the album Verities & Balderdash
• "Shooting Star" by Dollar, from the album Shooting Stars
• "Shooting Star" by the Australian band Expatriate, from the album In the Midst of This
• "Shooting Star" by Riyu Kosaka, from the album BeForU
• "Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the film Thunderbirds Are Go
• "Shooting Star" by Órla Fallon, from the album Distant Shore
• "Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the album From a Basement on the Hill
• "Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the album This Is Me Now
• "Shooting Star" by everset, Kamen Rider Meteor's theme on the series Kamen Rider Fourze
• "The Shooting Star" by Gojira, from the album Magma
• "Shooting Star" by VIXX from the album Kratos

Science and mathematics[edit]

• Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
• Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
• Dodecatheon pulchellum, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star

Sport[edit]

Transportation[edit]

• P Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
• T Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
• Shooting Star (clipper), an extreme clipper ship built in
• Another extreme clipper, USS Ino, which served in the Civil War. It was renamed Shooting Star in
• A BR 'Britannia' class steam locomotive
• A GWR Star Class, steam locomotive
• A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:

Other uses[edit]

See also[edit]

Topics referred to by the same term

Shooting Stars

Under the direction of Diamond Head Theatre's award-winning Artistic Director John Rampage and his talented staff, the Diamond Head Theatre Shooting Stars feature some of Hawaii's most talented performers, ages

The Shooting Stars have entertained audiences for over 15 years with an extensive Shooting stars of show tunes and choreography.  They have performed in New York at City Center, Shooting stars, and Shooting stars at Washington Place, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu Star-Advertiser ‘Ilima Awards, with the Honolulu POPS Concert, and in all 11 years of the Jim Nabors’ Christmas Show.  The Shooting Stars also Shooting stars their own productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Damn Yankees, 42^nd Street, Cinderella, Hello Dolly! and Into the Woods.

How does my child join Shooting Stars?

The Shooting Stars program holds auditions times each year. Audition information will be posted here when available. If you would like to sign up to receive email information when auditions are coming up, please contact Jared at: shootingstars@ingalex.de or call him at () x

THEME PARTIES

Special Shooting stars for "theme parties" are available at reasonable costs. If you would like more information on the Shooting Stars, or would like to set up a booking, please call Diamond Head Theatre at  ext, Shooting stars. .

For any questions, please contact John Rampage at X

To be added to Shooting stars email Shooting stars to receive notifications on upcoming auditions please email shootingstars@ingalex.de

single by Bag Raiders

"Shooting Stars" is a song by Australian electronic duo Bag Raiders, Shooting stars. The song was originally featured on the band's EP, Turbo Love, in ^[2] The year afterwards, the song was released as a single from their eponymous debut album Bag Raiders, Shooting stars, and reached number 18 in the Triple J Hottest countdown of Although the song was released and charted in Australia inShooting stars, the song did not reach its peak there until It received international attention in February Shooting stars the song became a part of a popular internet meme, thus cementing the track's legacy as a sleeper hit. The song reached number 11 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 9 on the BillboardBubbling Under chart that year. The vocals on the song are performed by Rhys Taylor.^[3]

Inthe song was listed at number 29 in In the Mix's ' Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time' with Dave Ruby Howe saying "[it] was a bright, euphoric tonic with an instantly-classic chorus".^[4]

History[edit]

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Jack Glass, a member of the band, said that the single inspired him to create their self-titled album, Shooting stars, claiming that "people loved Shooting Stars so much and we liked that direction of songwriting and developing a pop sensibility ourselves, too." Glass also said that the band also played half of the song in clubs before the band had realized that "people liked it and wanted to hear the whole thing."^[5]

Composition[edit]

The song is composed Shooting stars G minor and a tempo of BPM. It also contains the interesting oddity of a melody played on the Stylophone, which is one of only a few examples of the Stylophone's use in professional music composition. The song's chorus is only played at the end of the song.^[6] The bass player is switched between Mr Billionaire Slot two band members in the verse and chorus.^[7]

Reception[edit]

"Shooting Stars" was well received by music Shooting stars. Andrew Murfett of The Sydney Morning Herald described the Shooting stars as "peppy track" and Shooting stars the song to works of Daft Punk.^[5]

Revival[edit]

In"Shooting Stars" was used on Australia's Got Talent by contestant Tommy Franklin, which led to the song entering the top 40 of the ARIA Singles Chart nearly four years after it was originally released due to downloads.^[8]

After the death of Harambe the Fruit Sensation Slots in Mayan animated tribute featuring the Shooting stars, using clips from Ego's music video for "The Crazy Things We Do", spread on the internet.^[9] InShooting stars, the song received greater international attention when the song became a part of a popular internet meme. The video that boosted the popularity of the meme was an upload on Reddit titled "Fat man does amazing dive".^[10] In the meme, the song is usually accompanied with people falling with surreal, spacey backgrounds.^[11] Chris Stracey, a member of the band, Shooting stars, reacted to the meme, saying "At Shooting stars we were like, ok this is funny I guess, but I didn't really get Shooting stars so I thought "alright whatever". Once I started seeing Shooting stars common theme though, such as the big guy jumping off the bridge into the river, that was the first one of the more recent stuff that really got me, Shooting stars. So good! Shooting stars and the Lady Gaga one is so funny [referring to a mashup with Gaga’s performance during the Super Bowl LI halftime]."^[12]

The song and its corresponding meme was later featured in the music video for the Katy Perry song "Swish Swish".^[13]

New York Magazine referred to the meme as the "first big post-Vine meme."^[10] Meanwhile, Daily Dot compared the meme to Neil Cicierega's viral video, Brodyquest.^[14]

On 6 DecemberShooting Stars (along with the popular meme associated within the song) is featured in YouTube Rewind: The Shape of .^[15]

The song on YouTube has over million views as Shooting stars October ^[16]

Track Heat Em Up Slots Machine maxi^[17]

1. "Shooting Stars" –
2. "Shooting Stars" (Siriusmo Remix) –
3. "Shooting Stars" (Kris Menace Remix) –
4. "Shooting Stars" (In Flagranti Remix) –

Covers[edit]

The song was first Shooting stars by Hidden Cat in ^[18] The song was later covered by American progressive house producer Elephante in ^[19] InAustralian producer POOLCLVB and singer MARSHES Shooting stars released a cover of the song, although this cover was first uploaded to YouTube in ^{[20][better&#;source&#;needed]}

Charts[edit]

Certifications[edit]

Appearances in other media[edit]

The song was featured during the end credits of Season 1, Episode 6 of the HBO series How to Make It in America.^[35] InMadeon featured the song in his mashup, "Pop Culture".^[36] The song was also featured on the soundtrack to NBA 2K16, in the playlist "Around the World".^[37]

References[edit]

Shooting star refers to a meteor.

Shooting star may also refer to:

Film, Shooting stars, television, and theater[edit]

• Shooting Star ( film), a Bulgarian short film
• Shooting Star ( Shooting stars, a Canadian short film
• Shooting Stars (British TV series), a British comedy television show
• Shooting Stars (Singaporean TV series), a Singaporean TV drama
• Shooting Star (animated series), a television series by 41 Entertainment
• Star Trek: Phaser Shooting stars (called Shooting Star in Shooting stars, Italy and UK), a video game for the Microvision
• "Shooting Stars" (CSI), a sixth-season episode of CSI
• Shooting Star, a play by Steven Dietz
• Shooting Stars, a play by Molly Newman
• Shooting Stars ( film), a British drama film
• Shooting Stars ( film), a film
• Shooting Stars ( film), Shooting stars, a West German drama film
• Shooting Stars ( film), a television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
• Shooting Stars ( film) ((Le ciel est à nous&#;[fr]), a French comedy produced by Richard Sadler
• "Shooting Star" (Glee), a episode of the television show Glee
• Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
• The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
• Shooting Stars (South Korean TV series), a television series

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• "Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star", by Boyzone
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• "Shooting Star" (Disney song), from Disney's Hercules
• "Shooting Star" (Bob Dylan song),
• "Shooting Star" (Elton John song),
• "Shooting Star" (Modern Talking song),
• "Shooting Star" (Poison song),
• "Shooting Star" (Owl City song),
• "Shooting Star" (Tara McDonald song),
• "Shooting Stars" (Bag Raiders song), Shooting stars,
• "Shooting Stars" (Dragon song),
• "Shooting Star" by The Mamas & the Papas, from the album People Like Us
• "Shooting Star", Shooting stars, by Lou Reed, from the album Street Hassle
• "Shooting Star", by Cross Shooting stars Star", a dance single by Bang!, covered by Flip & Fill
• "Shooting Star" by Harry Chapin, from the album Verities & Balderdash
• "Shooting Star" by Dollar, from the album Shooting Stars
• "Shooting Star" by Shooting stars Australian band Expatriate, from the album In the Midst of This
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• "Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the film Thunderbirds Are Go
• "Shooting Star" by Órla Fallon, from the album Distant Shore
• "Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the album From a Basement on the Hill
• "Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the album This Is Me Now
• "Shooting Star" by everset, Kamen Rider Meteor's theme on the series Kamen Rider Fourze
• "The Shooting Star" by Gojira, from the album Magma
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• Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
• Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering American Roulette Gold Slots Machine pulchellum, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star

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• P Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
• T Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
• Shooting Star (clipper), an extreme clipper ship built in
• Another extreme clipper, USS Ino, which served in the Civil War. It was renamed Shooting Star in
• A BR 'Britannia' class Shooting stars locomotive
• A GWR Shooting stars Class, steam locomotive
• A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:

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Topics referred to by the same term

Meteor showers occur when dust or particles from asteroids or comets enter Earth's atmosphere at very Shooting stars speed. When they hit the atmosphere, meteors rub against air particles and create friction, heating the meteors. The heat vaporizes most meteors, creating what we call shooting stars.

While there are stray bits of stuff hitting Earth from all directions, there also are regularly timed "meteor showers" when astronomers can make better predictions about how many meteors will hit the Earth, and from what direction, Shooting stars. The key difference is that meteor showers occur when the Earth plows into the trail of particles left behind by a comet or asteroid. Depending on where the trail of particles falls in a particular year, Shooting stars, meteor showers can be more or less intense.

Astronomers sometimes even find new meteor showers, such as the case of the Camelopardalids in Initial predictions put the shower at up to meteors per hour, but in reality, it ended up being a quiet shower for amateur astronomers. The shower became active after the debris trail of Comet P/LINEAR intersected with Shooting stars. (The debris trail of comets can shift because of the influence of Jupiter, or other reasons.)

Related: Amazing photos of the Perseid meteor shower

Most meteors become visible at around 60 miles ( kilometers) up. Some large meteors splatter, causing a brighter flash called a fireball, which Banco de Revision maquina tragaperras often be seen during the day and heard up to 30 miles (48 km) away. On average, meteors can speed through the atmosphere at about 30, Shooting stars, mph (48, kph) and reach temperatures of about 3, degrees Fahrenheit (1, degrees Celsius). 

Most meteors are very small, some as Shooting stars as a grain of sand, so they disintegrate in the air. Larger ones that reach the Earth's surface are called meteorites and are rare.

Whether an object breaks apart depends on its composition, speed and angle of entry. A faster meteor at an oblique angle (slanting rather than straight-on) suffers greater stress. Meteors made of iron withstand the stress better than those of stone. Even an iron meteor will usually break up as the atmosphere becomes denser, around 5 to 7 miles (8 to 11 km) up.

Impacting Earth

When meteorites do hit the ground, their speed is roughly half what it was upon entry, and they blast out craters 12 to 20 times their size, Shooting stars. Craters on Earth form much as they would on the moon or any rocky planet. Smaller objects create bowl-shaped craters. Larger impacts cause a rebound that creates a central peak; slipping along the rim forms terraces, Shooting stars. The largest impacts form basins in which multiple rebounds form several inner peaks.

Large meteors can explode above the surface, causing widespread damage from the blast and ensuing fire. This happened in over Siberia, in Shooting stars called the Tunguska event. On June 30,Shooting stars, across hundreds of miles, Shooting stars, witnesses saw a ball of fire streak through the sky, suggesting the meteor entered the atmosphere at an oblique angle, Shooting stars. It exploded, sending out hot winds and loud noises and shook the ground enough to break windows in nearby villages. Small particles blown into the atmosphere lit the night sky for several days. No meteorite was ever found, and for years many scientists thought the devastation was caused by a comet. Now, the prevailing theory holds that a meteor exploded just above the surface.

A similar event occurred over Chelyabinsk, Shooting stars, Russia, when a meter rock exploded 12 to 15 miles above the Earth's surface on Feb. 15,damaging buildings and injuring more than 1, people. According to a statement by Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario in Canada, "The energy of the resulting explosion exceeded kilotons of TNT" — 30 to 40 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

Although the Russian event brought into focus the possible danger Earth could suffer from space rocks, most meteors don't cause nearly as much damage. Still, NASA and other entities keep careful track of all asteroids visible from Earth, and are actively engaged in discovering as many asteroids as possible — especially the ones that are larger and would pose more of a (theoretical) threat to Earth. Asteroid orbits are plotted and tracked to see if they will intersect with Earth in the future. While no imminently threatening object has been found, NASA continues the search and posts the results publicly on the Small Body Database Browser.

Meteors in history

In ancient times, objects in the night sky conjured superstition and were associated with Shooting stars and religion. But misunderstandings about meteors lasted longer than they did about most other celestial objects.

Meteorites (the pieces that make it to Earth) were long ago thought to be cast down as gifts from angels. Others thought the gods were displaying their anger. As late as the 17th Shooting stars, many believed they fell from thunderstorms (they were nicknamed "thunderstones"). Many scientists were skeptical that Shooting stars could fall from the clouds or the heavens, and often they simply didn't believe the accounts of people who claimed to have seen such Shooting starsa fireball exploded over Connecticut, and several meteorites rained down. By then the first handful of asteroids had been discovered, and a new theory emerged suggesting meteorites were broken bits off asteroids or other planets. (A theory that still holds.)

The largest meteorite recovered in the United States fell in a wheat field in southern Nebraska in Witnesses saw a giant fireball in the afternoon that some said was brighter than the sun. The meteorite was Shooting stars buried 10 feet (3 meters) deep in Shooting stars ground, Shooting stars. It Fruits Land Slot 2, lbs. (1, kilograms).

The most famous meteorite crater in the United States is misnamed Shooting stars Crater. It's in Arizona, and it's huge. The rim rises feet (45 m) from the surrounding plain, and the hole is feet ( m) deep and nearly a mile wide. It was the first crater that was proven to be caused by a meteorite impact, which occurred between 20, Shooting stars, and 50, years ago.

Annual meteor showers

Meteors are often seen falling from the sky alone — one here, one there. But there are certain times in a year when dozens or even hundreds of meteors per hour will light Shooting stars the sky, seemingly coming from one part of the sky, radiating in all directions, and falling toward Earth one after the other.

There are several periodic meteor showers that astronomers and amateur observers wait for every year. Meteor showers are named after the constellations from where the shower appears to be coming from. For example, the Orionids appear to originate from the mighty Orion constellation, while Perseid meteors seem to be coming from the Perseus constellation.

Leonids: The brightest and most impressive is the Leonid meteor shower, which can produce a meteor storm that showers the sky with thousands of meteors per minute at its peak. In fact, the term "meteor shower" was coined after astronomers' observed one of Leonids' most impressive displays in Party Games Slotto Review Slots Machine Leonids occur every November, Shooting stars, but the shower's most beautiful display happens at intervals of about 33 years, with the last one lighting Earth's sky in ; it is not expected to be repeated until

Related: Amazing Leonid meteor shower photos

Perseids: Another shower that is worth keeping awake for is the Perseid meteor shower, which is associated with the Comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes years to orbit the sun. Earth passes through the comet's orbit during the month of August every year. It is not as active as the Leonids, but it is the most widely watched meteor shower of the year, peaking on Aug. 12 with more than 60 meteors per minute.

Orionids: The Orionid meteor shower produces meteors from Halley's comet, which orbits the sun every 75 to 76 years. The Orionid shower Fruits Land Slot every October and can last for a week, treating patient observers to a show of 50 to 70 shooting stars per hour at its peak.

Related: Orionid meteor shower sparks bright fireballs (video)

Quadrantids: The Quadrantid meteor shower comes from the debris of an asteroid called EH1, which some astronomers think was part of a comet that broke apart centuries ago. The debris enters Earth's atmosphere in early January and offers astronomers and other observers a brief show.

Related: Spectacular Quadrantid meteor photos

Geminids: Like the Quadrantids, the Geminid meteor shower also came from dust particles of an asteroid, this time a near-earth asteroid called Phaeton. Meteor showers are mostly from comets, so having an asteroid as parents make the Quadrantids and Geminids different from other meteor showers. The Geminids happen in December and spray up to 40 meteors per hour out of the Gemini constellation at its peak.

Other meteor showers to watch out Shooting stars are the Eta Aquarids, also remnants of Halley's comet, in May; and the Lyrids, which have Mr Multiplier Reactor Slots Machine chronicled for more than 2, years, in late April.

Observing tips

People living in the Northern Hemisphere are in the best position to observe the most beautiful meteor showers. For example, North America is right below the region of the sky where the January Quadrantids shower appears.

A bright moon can dim the prospect of seeing a good meteor shower, Shooting stars out all but the brightest meteors. Local light pollution dampens prospects, too, so the best place to view a meteor shower is from out in a rural location.

Most meteor showers are best viewed in the pre-dawn hours, when the part of Earth you are standing on is facing the direction of Earth's orbit. It's like bugs hitting a car's windshield. In the late evening hours, on the other hand, the meteors are less frequent — loosely akin to bugs hitting a car's rear bumper.

Meteor showers can be seen at different times of the year depending on when Earth is going to pass through the comet's or asteroid's path. Some meteor showers happen annually; others only appear over a period of several years, Shooting stars, while some of the best shows — meteor storms — happen just once or twice in a lifetime.

Weather can also hamper a good view of meteor showers. A clear sky is a gift to night gazers, which is why meteor showers during the summer are more anticipated than those that fall in the winter months. If you want to try and capture a meteor shower yourself, we have a guide to the best cameras for astrophotography and the best lenses for astrophotography, to get you all started.

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“I see thy glory like a shooting star.”

So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future in Shakespeare’s “Richard II.”

During the English Renaissance, people believed shooting stars were luminaries falling from the heavens and harbingers of calamity. But by the end of the 19th century, scientists had established the truth to be far more mundane. What today are commonly called shooting or falling stars are simply small pieces of rock or dust that quickly burn up upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, Shooting stars.

But nature has a surprise for you – shooting stars really do exist.

I am an astrophysicist who studies celestial mechanics – how objects like stars, planets and galaxies move.

From toa monumental observing program incorporating the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory confirmed a new class of stars that move with such incredible speed that they can escape the gravity of their home galaxies.

Astronomers are just beginning to understand these real-life Shooting stars stars – called hypervelocity stars – that zoom through the cosmos at millions of miles per hour.

Spinning stars and slingshots

The story of hypervelocity stars begins inwhen Jack Gilbert Hills, a theoretician at Los Alamos National Labs, had an inspired idea: What would happen if a binary star system – that is, two stars that are gravitationally bound to each other and orbit a common center of mass – traveled near the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way? Hills calculated that Shooting stars tidal force of the black hole could rend the binary system in two.

Imagine two ice skaters holding hands and spinning around until they all of a sudden let go. The two skaters will fly away from each other. Similarly, Shooting stars two stars in a binary system are wrenched apart by a close encounter with a black hole, they will fly apart. In such an encounter one star might gain enough energy to be slingshotted out of the galaxy entirely.

Astronomers now know that this is how hypervelocity stars are born.

Theory, observations and simulations

After the publication of Hills’ prescient paper, the astronomy community considered hypervelocity stars an intriguing possibility, albeit one without observational evidence. That changed in

While observing stars in the Milky Way’s halo, a team of researchers using the MMT Observatory in Arizona came across something most unexpected. They observed a star escaping the Milky Way at Shooting stars 2 million mph ( million kph). This was HVS1, the first known hypervelocity star.

Observations tell part of the story, but to help answer other questions – such as what happens to the companion after it separates from the hypervelocity star – my adviser and I turned to computer simulations. Our models predict that the other star in the former Shooting stars is often left orbiting the black hole in much the same fashion as the Earth orbits the Sun.

Another exciting result from these modeling efforts was the discovery that sometimes the two stars can crash into Shooting stars other. When this happens, the stars may coalesce into one very massive star.

If you were wondering what might befall a planet orbiting one of these stars, we modeled that too. In a short paper frommy colleagues and I showed that the black hole in the center of our galaxy can blast planets out of the Milky Way at nearly 5% the speed of light.

As of today, no hypervelocity planets have been detected, but they very well might be out there, waiting casino peralada some happy astronomers to chance upon them.

Not all fast stars leave the galaxy

Utilizing data from the Gaia spacecraft, launched inmy colleagues and I discovered that some of the stars that the astronomy community had previously considered “hypervelocity stars” are in fact likely bound to the Milky Way galaxy.

While this result may sound disappointing, it actually reveals two critical points. First, there are different mechanisms to accelerate stars to high speeds. Today astronomers know of thousands Shooting stars speedy stars. However, just Gossip Slots Casino Bonus a star is moving fast does not necessarily make it a hypervelocity star unbound from the Milky Way. Second, true hypervelocity stars that are escaping the Milky Way may be rarer than previously thought.

The future is bright and fast

I find it beautiful that true shooting stars exist. It’s equally amazing that studying their trajectories and velocities can help answer some of the foremost questions in science today.

For instance, hypervelocity stars could offer clues to the nature and distribution of Shooting stars matter in the universe. Hypervelocity stars may also be the key to answering whether there is more than one black hole at the center of the galaxy.

My students are using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to search for planets around these Shooting stars fast stars. The discovery of even one planet around a hypervelocity Shooting stars will forever change ideas of planetary formation and survivability.

These stars are speedy, but slowly they are shedding light on nature’s secrets. While you may not be able to see a real shooting star with your own eyes, you certainly can make a wish upon one.

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An old superstition suggests that Shooting stars you wish upon a shooting star, your wish will be granted, Shooting stars. The implication is that shooting stars are so rare, and your sighting so fortuitous, that you've been specially selected for a dose of good luck. 

But are shooting stars kinder casino all that elusive? And what are they, exactly?

A shooting star is a "common, if inaccurate, name for a meteor," or a space rock that collides with Earth's atmosphere, said Edwin Charles Krupp, an astronomer and director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. 

Meteors that are called shooting stars appear as "a flash of Shooting stars to sky-gazers, Shooting stars, Krupp told Live Science. "This light is the visible trail of gases in Earth's upper atmosphere [that are] heated to incandescence by the high-speed passage of a meteoroid, or meteoric particle, intercepting the Earth." Quite simply, a "shooting star" is a piece of space rock or dust that briefly becomes visible when it begins to burn up in our planet's atmosphere. Much of this material comes from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Related: Why are asteroids Shooting stars comets such weird shapes?

So, how common are shooting stars? How often do these flashy space rocks come into contact with Earth's atmosphere, Shooting stars, and what's the best way to see them?

"Meteors occur all of the time, all over the Banco de Revision maquina tragaperras, but are only seen at night," Krupp said. Most extraterrestrial rubble that collides with the atmosphere is "very small, typically the size of a grain of sand," he added.

The number of meteors visible to the unaided eye under a truly dark sky in a hour period all over Earth is estimated to be 25 million, according to a University of Oregon report. However, Earth also intercepts many smaller particles that are too faint to Shooting stars detected by the unaided eye, Krupp noted.

In the dark

If you want to see shooting stars, it's important to find a dark sky location, Krupp said. Dark sky sites have very low levels of light pollution and allow uninterrupted views of the night sky.

Sincethe International Dark Sky Places conservation program, run by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDSA), has encouraged communities to "preserve dark sites through responsible lighting policies and public education." The IDSA also dictates whether a site can officially be called a "dark sky," and has, to date, awarded areas around the world dark sky status.

Certain sites have "gold-tier dark sky" status, which is the IDSA's highest possible rating. Some of the best dark sky areas include Northumberland National Park in England, the largest gold-tier dark sky park in Europe; the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve, the first gold-tier dark sky preserve in the United States; and the Atacama Desert in Chile, which Shooting stars La Silla Observatory, home to some of the world's most powerful telescopes. (You can see a comprehensive list of the world's best dark sky sites at this Shooting stars from the International Dark-Sky Association.)

Unfortunately, Shooting stars, and largely due to human activity, pristinely dark skies are increasingly hard to find, Shooting stars. According to the "World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness," around 80% of the world's population lives under "skyglow," which the U.S. Department of Energy defines as "an increase in the apparent brightness of the night sky that can serve to reduce visibility for astronomical observation." In the U.S. and Europe, it's estimated that 99% of people live under some degree of skyglow.

Starlink, Elon Musk's internet-enabling satellite network, is also causing issues for astronomers. Once fully operational, there could be 42, Starlink satellites orbiting Earth, something that has led the International Astronomical Union to create the Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference to "mitigate the negative impact of satellite constellations."

Related: How Shooting stars the Milky Way get its name?

For most people, Krupp said, seeing Shooting stars shooting star is a rare event because "we have lost the night sky to light pollution," which "unnecessarily denies us the stars." Krupp also believes that many of us are guilty of being "busied by other things" and, Shooting stars, as a result, often don't take the time to look at and admire the sky. But he is confident that a person who deliberately and purposefully watches the sky on a clear night from a location "untarnished by artificial light" will be able to see "five to 10 meteors per hour," if not more.

"All you've got to do is go outside, find a nice dark spot, lie flat on your back and look up," Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, previously told Live Science. "You don't want binoculars. You don't want a telescope. You just use your eyes." 

There are also times Shooting stars the year when people are more likely to see shooting stars. Meteor showers, which occur when Earth annually passes through the "persistent ring of debris shed by a comet," give stargazers a much better chance of seeing a host of shooting stars. These events can be predicted to the day, Shooting stars, thanks Shooting stars the reliability of Earth's orbit around the sun. For instance, the Perseid meteor shower, which often peaks in August, can shower Earth with as many as 50 to visible meteors per hour.

Shooting stars are, it would appear, Shooting stars, far more common than most people think — you just have to look up at the right time and be in the right place.

Originally published on Live Science.

Joe Phelan is a journalist based in London. His work has appeared in VICE, National Geographic, World Soccer and The Blizzard, and has been a guest on Times Radio. He is drawn to the weird, wonderful and under examined, as well as anything related to life in the Arctic Circle. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Chester.