This weekend, you are in luck. There will be a shower of falling stars streaming from near the North Star. This shower of falling stars is called the Perseids. A falling star is not a star at all. It is not even a piece of a star.
Stars are huge balls of burning gas.
Our sun is a star. Stars are usually much bigger than our planet and they do not fall out of the sky. A falling star is really a meteor. Meteors are streaks of light in the sky that we enjoy watching. Meteors happen when a small speck of dust burns high in the air above us.