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Hey, Stargazers! Have you ever wished upon a 
shooting star? Well, what if I told you that's

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not actually a star you're wishing upon. It's something 
else and in fact, a shooting star also known as

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a falling star has nothing to do with stars at 
all. This beautiful phenomenon in the night sky is

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really just caused by tiny bits of dust and rock 
falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up.

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This burning light across the sky is what we 
would call a meteor. These meteors can enter

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Earth's atmosphere falling as fast as 44 miles 
per second. That's the equivalent of over like 160,000

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miles an hour and the faster and larger the 
meteor, the brighter and longer it's gonna glow.

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Most burn up, but if a bit of space rock does 
make it through the atmosphere and hit the

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surface, that's called a meteorite. If you could 
track that meteorite's exact position, you could

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go find a falling star. So next time you want 
to make a wish on a shooting star, maybe you

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should think of it as like wishing upon a falling 
meteor, but you know that doesn't really sound as

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fun as wishing on a shooting star. We'll see 
you next time on Star Gazers. Keep looking up!