The Gold Large Christmas Star Tree Toppers is 14 inches high total and 12 inches wide. There are 5 points on the large star tree toppers. The bottom connector is 3 inches tall. The holiday star tree topper has spiral designs on the front and back. The large Christmas star tree topper is made of wire and is painted gold with glitter and iridescent glitter. This gold iridescent star tree topper is perfect for medium or large Christmas trees. For indoor use only.
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The Nativity Star: The star symbolizes the star that appeared, quite miraculously, in the eastern sky on the birth of Jesus Christ. The star is believed to have guided shepherds and the magi, who were the three wise men from the East, to the newborn king. One wonders whether the star that shined that night was any different from those of today. The star was indeed a strange star and people continue to believe that a miracle occurred at the birth of Christ. The Christmas star continues to adorn the churches and houses as part of the traditional Christmas celebrations. The star stands for high hopes and ideals, a hope for a good fortune and to reach above oneself.
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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.
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.
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.