Our Lighted star of Bethlehem Christmas tree toppers are about 10.5 inches long and 7.5 inches across. The lighted star of Bethlehem Christmas tree toppers are gold, metal, mesh with a scroll pattern on the top and twirled metal edging. The lighted star of Bethlehem Christmas tree toppers have an iridescent frost highlighting. The lighted star of Bethlehem Christmas tree toppers have a clear, 7 watt max candelabra base bulb in the center. The lighted star of Bethlehem Christmas tree toppers are two sided, with the same decorations on the front and the back. There is a 4.75 inch long gold plastic tube, that is 1 inch in diameter on one end and 1.75 inches in diameter on the other, to attach to your tree.

Information on Stars.
Stars are suns, some are bigger and brighter than our own sun and some are smaller and fainter. Our suns seems so much brighter and larger simply because it is much nearer to us than any of the other stars. Our sun is about 93,000,000 miles away, far enough that a rocket would take about five months to reach the sun. The nearest star, other than the sun, is so far away a 7 mile a second rocket would take almost 120,000 years to reach it.
Since very early times man has looked up at the stars and wondered about these diamond like points of light that shimmer above. Some ancient carvings show that men who lived 5,000 years ago studied the heavens.
Ancient man probably had no idea what the stars are really like. They did not dream that the stars are other suns, far out in space. They thought that the stars made the outlines of animals or persons in the sky and they called these shapes constellations. The ancient Greeks thought that one group of stars looked like a winged horse, which they named Pegasus. Other groups of stars were named after other animals or persons and these became part of the legends and folk tales that have come down to us through thousands of years.
The sun and most other stars are made of gas and a hot, gas like substance known as plasma. But some stars, called white dwarfs and neutron stars, consist of tightly packed atoms or subatomic particles. These stars are therefore much more dense than any substance on Earth.
About 75 percent of all stars are members of a binary system, a pair of closely spaced stars that orbit each other. The sun is not a member of a binary system. However, its nearest known stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is part of a multiple star system that also includes Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B.
The distance from the sun to Proxima Centauri is more than 25 trillion miles. This distance is so great that light takes 4.2 years to travel between the two stars. Scientists say that Proxoma centauri is 4.2 light years from the sun. One light year, the distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year, equals about 5.88 trillion miles.
Stars are grouped in huge structures called galaxies. Telescopes have revealed galaxies throughout the universe at distances of 12 billion to 16 billion light years. The sun is in a galaxy called the Milky Way that contains more than 100 billion stars. There are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe and the average number of stars per galaxy may be 100 billion. Thus, more than 10 billion trillion stars may exist. If you look at the night sky far from city lights, you can see only about 3,000 of them without using binoculars or a telescope.
Stars have life cycles, they are born, they pass through several phases and eventually they die. The sun was born about 4.6 billion years ago and will remain much as it is for another 5 billion years. Then it will grow to become a red giant. Late in the suns lifetime, it will cast off its outer layers. The remaining core, called a white dwarf, will slowly fade, entering its final phase as a black dwarf.
Other stars will end their live sin different ways. Some will not go through a red giant stage. Instead, they will merely cool to become white dwarfs, then black dwarfs. A small percentage of stars will die in spectacular explosions called supernovae.