Don't Edit In the 80 years since, Bethlehem has embraced its Christmas City character. And throughout that time, its most prominent decoration has shined down from South Mountain, a giant star ...

The Christmas star is also called the Bethlehem star and you can view it yourself in the sky on December 21, 2020. In addition to the Winter Solstice, there is also going to be the “Great ...

The star of Bethlehem remembers the industrious Moravian founders who, on Christmas Eve in 1741, named their settlement after the biblical city in Judea where Jesus was born. It also recalls the ...

Christmas in Bethlehem is a spare, beautiful business. Like a sunrise in Hawaii, it is unaccompanied by any embellishment of common Yuletide fripperies like mistletoe or honey-roasted ham.

Was the "Star of Bethlehem" that led the magi to the infant Jesus in the Bible the same as the Christmas Star that will be visible on Monday (Dec. 21)? In other words, will we be seeing what the ...

Jupiter and Saturn came together in a “Great Conjunction” in 2020 that was unlike any seen in nearly 800 years. The two planets appeared so close together in Earth’s night sky on the winter ...

The Star of Bethlehem has often been referred to as the Christmas Star. So much so, that it has become a popular Yuletide symbol. As a child, I remember when decorating our Christmas tree in the ...

The famous “star ... one Christmas song hangs over every creche and sits atop most Christmas trees this time of year. But what was the astronomical event we now call the star of Bethlehem ...

Christmas is an equal opportunity holiday. It's celebrated in churches, homes, town squares, and on TV. And it's celebrated in less likely places, too. For instance: your local planetarium.

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared ...