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In Unicode, the "Eight Spoked Asterisk" symbol is U+2733.; The spikes are specially visible around Jupiter's moon Europa (on the left) in this NIRCam image.. The 8-pointed diffraction spikes of the star images from the James Webb Space Telescope are due to the diffraction caused by the hexagonal shape of the mirror sections and the struts holding the secondary mirror.
Christmas sweater featuring multiple black 8-pointed Star of Bethlehem designs. In European textiles a common eight-pointed star design is known as the Holy Star of Bethlehem. The design has been used in stone, metal, wood-work and embroidery in the Middle East since antiquity and is one of the oldest patterns in patterns in Palestinian tatreez ...
The star of Inanna usually had eight points, [1] though the exact number of points sometimes varies. [2] Six-pointed stars also occur frequently, but their symbolic meaning is unknown. [3] The eight-pointed star was Inanna's most common symbol, [1] and in later times became the most common symbol of the goddess Ishtar, Inanna's East Semitic ...
The eight-pointed star a symbol used in some cultures for Venus, and sometimes combined into a star and crescent arrangement. Here the eight pointed star is the Star of Ishtar , the Babylonian Venus goddess, alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash and the crescent moon of their father Sin on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II , dating ...
Druze star, a symbol of the Druze religion; Marian star, a six-pointed star used as a Roman Catholic symbol of celestial objects; Rub el Hizb, a common Islamic symbol; alQuds Star, a star representing 'alQuds' (Jerusalem) Haykal, a five-pointed star that represents the Bahá'í Faith; Nine-pointed star, a common symbol of the Bahá'í Faith ...
Moravian stars in the Striezelmarkt in Dresden A Moravian star half assembled A completed Moravian star hanging by a church. A Moravian star (German: Herrnhuter Stern) is an illuminated decoration used during the Christian liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany representing the Star of Bethlehem pointing towards the infant Jesus. [1]
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The five-pointed star is a symbol of the Baháʼí Faith. [28] [29] In the Baháʼí Faith, the star is known as the Haykal (Arabic: "temple"), and it was initiated and established by the Báb. The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh wrote various works in the form of a pentagram. [30] [31]