Shooting Star
Appearance
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Shooting star refers to a meteor.
Shooting star may also refer to:
Film, television, and theater
[edit]Film
[edit]- Shooting Star (2015 film), a 2015 Bulgarian short film
- Shooting Star (2020 film), a 2020 Canadian short film
- Shooting Stars (1927 film), a 1927 British drama film
- Shooting Stars (1950 film), a 1950 film
- Shooting Stars (1952 film), a 1952 West German drama film
- Shooting Stars (1983 film), a 1983 television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
- Shooting Stars (1997 film) (Le ciel est à nous ), a 1997 French comedy produced by Richard Sadler
- Shooting Stars (2023 film), a 2023 sports drama
Television series
[edit]- Shooting Star, a 2020 television series by 41 Entertainment
- Shooting Stars (South Korean TV series), a 2022 South Korean television show
- Shooting Stars (British TV series), a British comedy television show
- Shooting Stars (Singaporean TV series), a 2005 Singaporean TV drama
Episodes
[edit]- "Shooting Stars" (CSI), a 2005 sixth-season episode of CSI
- "Shooting Star" (Glee), a 2013 episode of the television show Glee
Plays and other entertainment uses
[edit]- Shooting Star, a play by Steven Dietz
- Shooting Stars, a play by Molly Newman
- Star Trek: Phaser Strike (called Shooting Star in Germany, Italy and UK), a 1979 video game for the Microvision
- 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
Literature
[edit]- Shooting Stars, a 2016 novel by Brian Falkner
- Shooting Star, a 1958 novel by Robert Bloch
- Shooting Star (Temple novel), by Australian Peter Temple
- The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
- Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
Music
[edit]- Shooting Star (band), a rock band from Kansas City, Missouri
Albums
[edit]- Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album), 1978
- Shooting Star (Shooting Star album), 1980
- Shooting Stars (album), a 1979 album by Dollar
- Shooting Star (EP), a 2012 EP by Owl City, and the title song
- SHOOTING STAR (XG album), 2023
Songs
[edit]- "Shooting Star" (Air Traffic song), 2007
- "Shooting Star" (Bad Company song), 1975
- "Shooting Star" (Bang! song), 1997, later covered by Flip & Fill
- "Shooting Star" (David Rush song), 2009
- "Shooting Star" (Deepest Blue song), 2004
- "Shooting Star" (Disney song), from Disney's Hercules
- "Shooting Star" (Bob Dylan song), 1989
- "Shooting Star" (Elton John song), 1978
- "Shooting Star" (Tara McDonald song), 2013
- "Shooting Star" (Modern Talking song), 2006
- "Shooting Star" (Poison song), 2002
- "Shooting Star" (Owl City song), 2012
- "Shooting Stars" (Bag Raiders song), 2010
- "Shooting Stars" (Dragon song), 1977
- "Shooting Star" by The Mamas & the Papas, from the 1971 album People Like Us
- "Shooting Star", by Lou Reed, from the 1978 album Street Hassle
- "Shooting Star", by Cross Gene
- "Shooting Star" by Harry Chapin, from the 1974 album Verities & Balderdash
- "Shooting Star" by Dollar, from the album Shooting Stars
- "Shooting Star" by the Australian band Expatriate, from the 2007 album In the Midst of This
- "Shooting Star" by Riyu Kosaka, from the 2003 album BeForU
- "Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1966 film Thunderbirds Are Go
- "Shooting Star" by Órla Fallon, from the 2009 album Distant Shore
- "Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the 2004 album From a Basement on the Hill
- "Shooting Star" by everset, Kamen Rider Meteor's theme on the series Kamen Rider Fourze
- "Shooting Star" by VIXX from the 2016 album Kratos
- "Shooting Star" by Gene Clark from the 1973 album Roadmaster
- "Shooting Star" by Muna
- "SHOOTING STAR" by XG
- "The Shooting Star" by Gojira, from the 2016 album Magma
- "Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the 2005 album This Is Me Now
Science and mathematics
[edit]- Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
- Primula sect. Dodecatheon, a group of herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Primula
- Primula pauciflora, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star
Sport
[edit]- Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
- NBA All-Star Weekend Shooting Stars Competition, a basketball competition
- A professional wrestling aerial technique
Transportation
[edit]- P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
- T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
- Shooting Star (clipper), an extreme clipper ship built in 1851
- Another 1851 extreme clipper, USS Ino, which served in the Civil War. It was renamed Shooting Star in 1867.
- A BR 'Britannia' class steam locomotive
- A GWR Star Class, steam locomotive
- A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:
- JNR Class DD51, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive type operated in Japan since 1962
- JR Freight Class EF510, a multi-voltage AC/DC electric locomotive type operated in Japan since 2002
Other uses
[edit]- Shooting Star (spacecraft), an expendable cargo module for the Dream Chaser spacecraft
- Shooting Star (drone), quadcopter drone by Intel
- Tecumseh (1768–1813), whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star
- Shooting Star Casino, in Minnesota
- Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
- Shooting star (candlestick pattern), in finance
- Shooting Star Tommy Gun, a carnival amusement game
- Shooting Star, Ace's aircraft from the arcade games TwinBee Yahho! and Sexy Parodius