A fireball is more of a sign of a sickness coming to the community or to the area, because they go all over. What does seeing a fireball mean?įireballs signify that sickness or death or an epidemic or something is coming. To try to see a shooting star, the sky should ideally be clear. Rock from space regularly enters the Earth’s atmosphere, with around one million shooting stars occurring every day around the world. Aside from our sun, the dots of light we see in the sky are all light-years from Earth. Stars are huge celestial bodies made mostly of hydrogen and helium that produce light and heat from the churning nuclear forges inside their cores. A “falling star” or a “shooting star” has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids … Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars.