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When a gas is compressed it gets hotter. You can easily see that with a simple bicycle pump.
Now if a gas hits a surface at many kilometers per second, it gets very hot. Hot enough to glow.
Check out Stagnation Temperature.
Now if a gas hits a surface at many kilometers per second, it gets very hot.
