True.
Stars are already falling, as in, they are acted upon by gravity alone. But they are by no means falling "from the sky". The direction of "down" for stars has really nothing to do with our home Earth. And, having them "fall" doesn't remove them from the sky.
The "falling star" is not a star at all. It is a meteor. A tiny pebble or grain of sand, that falls to Earth from the interplanetary medium. Most meteoroids (as they are called prior to atmospheric entry) are remnants of blowoff from the tails of the comets of history.
The reason the meteor "looks like" a star, is that it is burning up by flying so fast through the atmosphere, that the stagnation air in front of it burns it in a spark. It being a point of light, with no naked-eye discernable size, is what makes us impressionistically understand it as a "shooting star" or a "falling star".
Stars are already falling, as in, they are acted upon by gravity alone. But they are by no means falling "from the sky". The direction of "down" for stars has really nothing to do with our home Earth. And, having them "fall" doesn't remove them from the sky.
The "falling star" is not a star at all. It is a meteor. A tiny pebble or grain of sand, that falls to Earth from the interplanetary medium. Most meteoroids (as they are called prior to atmospheric entry) are remnants of blowoff from the tails of the comets of history.
The reason the meteor "looks like" a star, is that it is burning up by flying so fast through the atmosphere, that the stagnation air in front of it burns it in a spark. It being a point of light, with no naked-eye discernable size, is what makes us impressionistically understand it as a "shooting star" or a "falling star".
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No it is not an actual star. What you are seeing when you see a 'shooting star' is a meteor (a chunk of rock) burning up in the earth's atmosphere. You see debris like rock shoots around our solar system mostly as the result of collisions of asteroids in the asteroid belt. It is attracted to objects with a lot of mass like Earth. When the meteor enters our atmosphere it is going really fast, that creates a lot of friction in the air and heats it up. It heats up to a point where it glows red hot and slowly disintegrates. That is what you are seeing when you see a falling star or a shooting star.
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obviously it is false as the star cannot fall and what we see falling is just the meteorite or even the asteroids that lies in the belt of the mars and the Jupiter. but as from the earth we can see all these as the stars, they have been given the name as the falling star or the shooting star.
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You're aware that stars are thousands, millions, or billions of times the size of Earth, right?
And that, even traveling at the speed of light, the closest star outside the Solar System would take over four years to reach here?
And that, even traveling at the speed of light, the closest star outside the Solar System would take over four years to reach here?