It's surprisingly easy to make these homemade Christmas ornaments. Start with 10 star points cut from old holiday cards. Fold down the center, then lay five points together into a star shape and ...

While this could easily be viewed as a missed opportunity, it wouldn't really make sense to write a Star Trek Christmas episode from a canonical perspective. Instead, the Star Trek TV shows ...

But changing times, precisely, are what led many planetariums to drop their "Christmas Star" show. It was around 1975 that Swangin, then director of the Newark Museum planetarium, got the memo.

Today, Venus is referred to as the "Christmas Star" because it will be the brightest object in the sky, besides the moon and sun, Throop said. Stars can be seen in the night sky.