Tip Center Category: Stars as Personal Gifts

Name a Star to Celebrate a Newborn

For unique personalized baby birthday gifts, consider Name a Star Live. Many have found that a star named after the newborn is an appropriate means of honoring new life.

Name a Star Live offers plenty of gift sets to choose from, but for a newborn, consider the Star Bear gift set, which features a cuddly stuffed bear included in the gift package—a keepsake great for decorating the newborn’s room and cuddling with when he or she grows older.

The Star Bear gift set also includes a star certificate, which features the star name, a personal message dedicated to the infant, the date of star registration, and the star’s telescopic coordinates, so maybe the young astronomer can one day find his or her star in the sky. This star certificate is suitable for framing and displaying along with the teddy bear. The gift set also includes a launch certificate, which commemorates the actual launch that sent the newborn’s star name and personal message into space.

Name a Star for an Anniversary

Stars make magnificent personalized anniversary gifts, especially when named as a gift reserved for milestone anniversaries. For example, do you have a tenth anniversary coming up? A personalized star is a great way to celebrate that important date as your relationship enters the double digits.

Stars are emblematic; they represent so much more than a twinkle of light in the night sky or the individual constellation they appear in or near. When you look up in the sky, the stars seem eternal—they appear ageless and imply a quality of permanence, the same quality you want your anniversary celebration to have, too.

As with any Name a Star Live gift star package, Space Services (Name a Star Live’s parent company) will launch your star name into space aboard a satellite. The idea of your star name in orbit is another noble and symbolic gesture worthy of any anniversary celebration.

Graduation Day Personalized Stars

Are you stumped for inventive, personalized graduation gifts? Why not name a star for your high school or college grad? Consider it a literal star for a figurative rising star.

Grads will especially love any star gift package that offers online viewing of the star using SLOOH, a robotically controlled online telescope. Name A Star Live is the only star-naming company to offer SLOOH. The recent grad can view the actual personalized star through SLOOH from a college dorm room, coffee shop, or anywhere the grad can set up a laptop and connect to the Internet.

Also, for graduates retaining the desire to learn, consider the value in Name a Star Live’s Virtual Planetarium™ software DVD. Developed in partnership with Rice University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the software is a learning resource complete with a library of stunning astronomy imagery, as well as astronomy facts, information, news, and events. The Virtual Planetarium DVD is included in many Name a Star Live gift packages.

Personalized stars are a fun way to recognize the hard work and accomplishments of recent grads; it’s also a gateway to a brand new hobby your favorite graduate can indulge in any time they look up at the night sky.

Gift Stars For Teacher

While any one of Name a Star Live’s star packages make great personalized teacher gifts, a package that includes both time on SLOOH, the robotically controlled online telescope, and the Virtual Planetarium™ software DVD, offers teachers a wonderful opportunity to teach their young pupils about astronomy.

Virtual Planetarium is Name a Star Live’s astronomy software DVD, which was developed by Rice University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. It is truly an all-ages learning resource. In addition to a virtual star chart for each night of the year, the DVD includes information on space weather, interactive space games for younger astronomers, fun 3-D images, and continuously updated information from NASA missions, including photos and movies from the two Mars Rovers and the Hubble telescope.

Combining Virtual Planetarium with SLOOH enables students to learn much about the cosmos… perhaps inspiring them to pick up a telescope and put down the video games once night falls.

Science education is serious business, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be made fun for children. Naming a star is an appropriate gift for teachers, and encourages students to look up and view the wonders of the night sky.

Star Gift Options

If you’re looking for alternative gift baskets for a friend or relative, consider a package from Name a Star Live. There are plenty of personalized friendship gifts and presentation options to choose from. It’s easy to assume that personalized stars should be used as encouragement to take up stargazing as a hobby, but star gifts are equally powerful as symbolic gestures meant to convey thanks, appreciation or simply to say "I love you."

Stars represent the eternal; while actual stars eventually change and grow old, the process takes so many centuries that they are practically immortal in the eyes of most. The message from your gift star package is clear—your affection for your gift recipient is as long lasting as the stars themselves.

When choosing a gift package, you can choose from three Ultimate Gift Sets, all which feature gift-wrapping, which also makes them a handy and convenient package to give. If you don’t need something quite that elaborate, you can get most of the same features from the Ultimate gift sets in the Deluxe gift sets—including a free viewing with the online telescope SLOOH. Your gift recipient will be able to view the gift star from the comfort of their own home thanks to SLOOH, making the star gift a versatile, thoughtful option.