Shooting Stars


//Issues: Preconceptions

Whoever said that a star looks like the picture above? It doesn't, in fact all stars are distant suns, so they all look like this picture below:


The only place that the archetypal star shape exists is the Starfish. Which came first the starfish or the star? (in misnomer terms of course)

It doesn't matter that this shape exists as a icon for a star, as it is needed. I do ask, however, if this misplaced relationship between a basic shape and one of the greatest powers in the universe is so easily embedded in our minds without us noticing what else are we missing?