Our Lovable Frosty Snowman Figurines are 4 inches long including their dangle feet. The Snowman Miniature Christmas Figurines are wearing a red stocking cap with an iridescent white cuff with thin black lines. The Lovable Snowman is also wearing an iridescent medium blue and white neck scarf with a white snowflake above the tassels, brown boots and white socks with brown stripes. The Little Snowmen have two small gold buttons, two gold snowflakes with emerald green jewels and one iridescent white snowflake with small a red jewel around their body. The Snowmen have a wide grin on their face, pudgy cheeks, coal black eyes, a large, pale orange, carrot nose and a gold star in his hand. The Lovable Frosty Snowman Figurines sit on the edge of a shelf with there feet dangling over the edge.
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What is a Star?
A star is a huge, shining ball in space that produces a tremendous amount of light and other forms of energy. The sun is a star and it supplies Earth with light and heat energy. The stars look like twinkling points of light, except for the sun. The sun looks like a ball because it is much closer to Earth than any other star.
The sun and most other stars are made of gas and a hot, gas like substance known as plasma. Some stars, called white dwarfs and neutron stars, consist of tightly packed atoms or subatomic particles. These stars are therefore much denser than any substance on Earth.
Stars come in many sizes. The sun’s radius or the distance form its center to its surface is about 432,500 miles. Astronomers classify the sun as a dwarf because other kinds of stars are much bigger. Some of the stars known as super giants have a radius about 1,000 times that of the sun. The smallest stars are the neutron stars, some of which have a radius of only about 6 miles.
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. The sun’s nearest known stellar neighbor is Proxima Centauri, which 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 Proxima 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.
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How The Stars Appear at Night.
When you look at the stars on a clear night, you will notice that they seem to twinkle and they differ in brightness. If you map the location of several stars for a few hours, you will observe that all the stars revolve slowly about a single point in the sky.
Twinkling of stars is caused by movements in Earth’s atmosphere. Starlight enters the atmosphere as straight rays. Twinkling occurs because air movements constantly change the path of the light as it comes through the air. You can see a similar effect when you stand in a swimming pool and look down. Unless the water is almost perfectly still, your feet will appear to move and change their shape. This twinkling occurs because the moving water constantly changes the path of the light rays that travel from your feet to your eyes.
The brightness of stars depends on two factors, the actual brightness of the star or the amount of light energy the star emits and the distance from the Earth to the star. A nearby star that is actually dim can appear brighter than a distant star that is really extremely brilliant. Alpha Centarui A seems to be slightly brighter than a star known as Rigel. Alpha Centauri A seems brighter because it is only 1/325 as far from Earth as Rigel is.
The Rising and Setting of Stars. When viewed from Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, stars rotate counterclockwise around a point called the celestial north pole. Viewed from the Southern Hemisphere, stars rotate clockwise about the celestial South Pole. During the day, the sun moves across the sky in the same direction and at the same rate as the stars. These movements do not result from any actual revolution of the sun and stars. They occur because of the west to east rotation of Earth about its own axis. To an observer standing on the ground, Earth seems motionless, while the sun and stars seem to move in circles, it is actually the Earth that is moving.
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