The Beaded Fabric Star Christmas Tree Topper
is 10 inches high and 9 inches wide. The Fabric Star Christmas Tree Toppers has cloth stretched over a silver wire frame with 10 lights on the inside. There are five lights pointed toward the center of the star and five lights pointing to the tip of each star point. There are white beads forming spirals on each star point along with a small brown colored heart bead. There is a small yellow star in the middle of the Star Christmas Tree Toppers. There is a 30 inch lead cord for you to plug the Beaded Fabric Star Christmas Tree Topper in. For indoor use only. Complete use and care instructions are included. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.
Why Stars Shine.
Starlight comes to us from almost unbelievable distances. If your eyes are sharp, you can see the faint haze of a great group of stars, the Andromeda Nubula. This group is so far away that its light, which you now see, started from the stars almost two million years ago.
How can light travel for two million years to reach our eyes? Scientists think that the light is produce in the stars by the changing of hydrogen into helium. When this happens, a small amount of matter is destroyed. But the matter reappears as a tremendous amount of energy, the energy of light and of kinds of radiation that cannot be seen. All these radiations are streams of extremely tiny bullet like particles. Scientists call these particles photons. Photons or rays of light shoot out from the stars in all directions and vibrate or zigzag as they go. There is no air and practically nothing else out is space, so there is nothing to stop these speedy light bullets. They keep going and going until they hit some solid object like the earth. These zigzagging light bullets affect our eyes and we see a star. Check out our selection of Christmas Tree Toppers.
Will the Stars Keep Shining Forever?
Scientists believe that our sun will go on shining in much the same way it does now for about 35 billion years more. Then the amount of light and heat it shoots our will get less and less, as it finishes burning up its fuel. Even so, it will probably keep shining with lessening brilliance for another 100 billion years or so.
Our sun is a rather slow atomic furnace. Other stats seem to be using up their hydrogen fuel much more rapidly. Most of the really brilliant stars pour out energy about 5,000 times faster than our sun does. These stars seem to be burning up faster, too and they probably quit shining billions of years before our sun dies out. Select to view our Artificial Prelit Christmas Trees.
Why Stars Shine Only At Night.
The sun is so near the earth and its light is so bright, that we cannot see the light from the stars in the daytime. The stars are still out there and their light keeps streaming to earth. But the sun’s light is many thousands of times brighter than starlight and it spreads out through the atmosphere, coloring it blue. In all this brightness, the light from the stars is lost. Check out our selection of Indoor Christmas Light.
