Often, no one else sees the speedy flight of light flash by and you are left trying to describe what you saw and felt. You stare at the dark space, hoping another will streak across the sky. 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 sending off great amounts of energy in the form of light and heat.
Stars are much bigger than our planet.
Our sun is a star. A falling star is a meteor. Meteors are streaks of light in the sky that we can see when a small speck of dust burns up high in the air above us. Meteoroids are usually smaller than a grain of sand. Some meteoroids are bigger but most are tiny.