Will you be burned if you touch a falling star?

Answer 1

If you somehow go close enough to do so, yes. What we call falling stars are not actually stars but meteors, small bits of rock burning up in the atmosphere. As these rocks it the atmosphere they heat up to thousands of degrees before disintegrating. Such small fragments are destroyed long before they reach the ground. Larger meteors can reach the ground to become meteorites. Strangely, meteorites are usually rather cold at impact, as the passage through the atmosphere is too brief for heat to reach inside larger rocks. Very large meteors release a tremendous amount of energy and can be quite destructive.