When do you wish on a star?

Question

When do you wish on a star?

Answer 1

when jimminy cricket is there.  WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR.... MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHO YOU ARE!!

Answer 2

When it starts to incinerate you.

Answer 3

Never.  Stars don't hear me, nor can they make my wishes come true.

Answer 4

This is the astronomy and space section, I doubt if those involved in such sciences would treat wishing on stars seriously!

Wishing for clear nights so they can observe them perhaps....

Answer 5

when it is falling!!!

Answer 6

People don't wish upon a star as often as they think they do. I've heard two different popular ideas about when you get to make a wish - on the "first star [you] see tonight", or "on a falling star".

The first "star" one often sees in the evening sky is not a star, but the planet Venus. Venus is the third brightest object in the sky (after the sun and the moon) because it's relatively close, quite large (nearly as big as Earth), and has a highly reflective atmosphere, and therefore it becomes visible in the sky before it gets dark enough for other, dimmer objects to appear. Though it's sometimes called the Evening Star (or the Morning Star), it is not emitting its own light from nuclear fusion, and is not a star by the usual definition.

A "falling star", one of those brief streaks of light sometimes seen in the night sky, is also not a true star, but tiny pieces of space debris (meteoroids), anything from the size of a grain of dust up to a smallish rock. They move extremely quickly, and when they strike our atmosphere the ram pressure produced causes them to heat up, vaporizing the meteoroid and emitting a streak of light. Again, this is not a star.

Answer 7

All the time