The Iridescent Gold Star Christmas Tree Toppers
is 13 inches high total and 11 inches wide. There are 5 points on the Large Star Christmas Tree Toppers. The bottom connector is 4 inches tall. The star is made of acrylic and is painted gold with multi-colored glitter. This Gold Iridescent Star Christmas Tree Toppers is perfect for large Christmas trees. For indoor use only. Complete use and care instructions are included. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

How Stars are used to Tell Directions.
The stars have always been used as guiding beacons in the sky. Since earliest times the North Star has helped sailors find their way across the trackless seas. Desert travelers have used stars to guide them. The Bible tells the beautiful story of the Star of Bethlehem that guided the Wise Men to the stable in Bethlehem where the baby Jesus lay in a manger. Even today, we use the stars to help guide our ships and airplanes. Check out our selection of Gold Ornament and Red Christmas Ornaments.

How Far Away Are the Stars?
Imagine that our sun is the size of the dot at the end of this sentence. Then the next nearest star to us would be another small dot about 10 miles away. Other stars would be hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Of the billions of stars in the heavens, only seventeen are within twelve light years of the earth. A light year is the distance that light, traveling 186,000 miles a second, will go in a year’s time. The big Hale telescope on Mount Palomar, California, has photographed groups of stars that are believed to be about 1,600 million light years away. A more powerful telescope would probably find stars even further away. Select to view our Christmas Tree Toppers.