How the "Star" Illusion Happens (Step-by-Step):

1. The View from Your Yard: You stand at the bottom left (YOU). It is night time, so your local sky wall has gone dark/translucent, allowing you to peer up into The Infinite Dark Stratosphere.
2. Looking Across the Void: Your eyes travel diagonally upward and outward, through the dark void, landing on the outer Glowing Gas layer of the Neighboring Domain's Sky Wall way down the road.
3. The Naked Eye: Because that neighboring atmosphere is ablaze with energy against the pitch-black backdrop of the upper stratosphere, it appears to you as a tiny, isolated, twinkling pinpoint of light a "star."
4. The Telescope Glitch: If you point a curved telescope lens at that flat patch of neighboring glowing gas, the glass bends the light rays inward. It warps a flat, sprawling sheet of atmospheric gas into a perfectly round, isolated circular disk, making our scientists believe they are looking at a spinning ball millions of miles away.

Also a shooting star is a highly localized event happening right inside our own atmospheric ceiling.