What emblem is centered on Ethiopia's current national flag?

What emblem is centered on Ethiopia's current national flag? A pentagram. More precisely, the flag displays a yellow interlaced pentagram with rays of light on a blue disk.

The emblem sits over Ethiopia's green, yellow and red horizontal tricolor. The pentagram is often called the Seal of Solomon or the emblem of Ethiopia, but in the flag's formal description the key shape is a five-pointed star. Its rays are said to represent equality among Ethiopia's peoples, while the blue disk surrounds and highlights the symbol.

The current emblematic flag was adopted on 31 October 1996 and modified on 16 May 2009. Ethiopia's green, yellow and red colors have much older roots: a modern tricolor was first adopted under Emperor Menelik II on 11 October 1897, following Ethiopia's victory over Italy at Adwa.

Readers sometimes confuse the pentagram with Ethiopia's older Lion of Judah imagery, which appeared on imperial flags. Others mistake the blue disk for the emblem itself; the disk is the background, while the pentagram is the central symbol.