What is a shooting star?
Pebble's Bright Goodbye
What is a shooting star?
You look up at night, and suddenly — a streak of light zips across the dark! You made a wish, didn't you? Everyone calls them shooting stars, but here's the secret: they're not stars at all.
A shooting star is actually a tiny piece of space rock — smaller than a pebble, sometimes just a grain of sand — racing through space at ridiculous speed. We're talking 25,000 miles per hour. That's New York to Los Angeles in about seven minutes.
