Surgical Technologist: Salary Details. These health care professionals had a median salary of $43,350 in 2014, according to the BLS. The highest earners made more than $62,170, while the lowest earners took home less than $30,780.
A falling star or a shooting star has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor.
The most common stars in the Milky Way by far are runty M-dwarfs â only half as big as the Sun but eight times as numerous. The galaxy does have a few massive stars floating around, but not many: only one in 10,000 stars measures up to the generation of giants that lived and died so long ago.