People have been observing its annual shower of shooting stars for more than 2, 600 years.
The reflections of shooting stars light up the saltwater pools around the hotel, and the glacier glistens a brilliant white in the moonlight.
It has been a feature of this Republican race that while Mitt Romney jogs along in first or second place, a series of shooting stars have briefly outshone him before fading and losing their lustre.
The production house associated with the film, Studio Babelsberg, is also a main partner of the Shooting Stars Awards.
One of last year's Shooting Stars, Carey Mulligan, is well on the path to becoming a bonafide star.
One of his companies is shooting for the stars (or at least for Mars), and another hopes to revolutionize the auto industry.
Astronomers said they think that some matter escapes black holes through particle jets shooting from the poles of giant collapsed stars.
At Oh My Love, Korea's biggest video chat service, avatars are quickly evolving from cute cartoonlike human figures into animations of moving lips, floating dragons and shooting stars.
Actors are first nominated by an EFP member group -- for instance, the British Film Council in the UK. An international jury of industry experts then selects 10 actors to be presented as Shooting Stars at the Berlin Film Festival.
Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said by e-mail that the shooting stars would be visible after about 11 p.m. in each time zone in the United States, with the best viewing time from 3 a.m. until dawn.
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But the Quadrantids should put on a decent show this year: When they peak in the early morning on January 3rd, viewers can expect to see as much as 120 shooting stars per hour, though the waning moon may wash out many of the dimmer outbursts.
They found a solution: The studio asked Mr. McKay to spend his summer re-shooting those scenes with international sports stars, and it went after soccer stars David Beckham of England and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal.
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