falling stars arent really stars.Theyre small bits of rock hitting our upper atmosphere and burning up.Youre seeing it as it happens.When stars blow up, which is a very rare occurrence in our galaxy, they take weeks to reach peak brightness and years to disappear again.......
And stars are not a million light years away - the stars in our galaxy (about 200 billion or more) are all within 100,000 light years of Earth.
And stars are massive objects of superheated plasma (like our sun) so there is no way one could fall to Earth.
A falling star is simply the unscientific name for a meteor - a small bit of space debris (usually smaller than a golf ball) that has entered our atmosphere and burns up from friction.
Its a realy shame they don't teach any basic science in school anymore.
No, falling stars aren't really stars. They're small bits of rock hitting our upper atmosphere and burning up. You're seeing it as it happens. When stars blow up, which is a very rare occurrence in our galaxy, they take weeks to reach peak brightness and years to disappear again.
Actually "falling stars" (meteors) are at most a couple of hundred kilometres away in Earth's atmosphere. We see them a tiny fraction of a second after they occur.
Stars don't fall (there is no "down" in space).
What people sometimes call "falling stars" are meteors, little pieces of rock or ice, or other"debris" which enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes.
