light travels very fast, at around 300, 000km/s. The nearest star to our solar system is 4.3 light years away, so this means we are seeing light that left the star 4.3 years ago. It is literally that...
A shooting star is a small piece of rock called a meteoroid, maybe the size of a pea or grain of sand. It enters the earths upper atmosphere at high speed and burns up due to the friction generated...