We’re a long way from Bethlehem, but it’s Christmas ... We are not of this world. Light flickers in the shadows. A star rises in the east. Tonight, I hear the sound of Christmas bells.

Another theory is that the star was light from the birth of a new star ... external says a nova is "a good candidate" for the star of Bethlehem. Image caption, A new star, or nova, could have ...

all points of light in the night sky were simply thought of as stars. Schwartz says this very bright “star” that appeared over Bethlehem that long-ago night would have only been visible for a ...

No light in Bethlehem 3mo T he Christmas editorial on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a hopeful message for us all (“The lesson of the light in darkness,” Dec. 25).

The famous Star of Bethlehem may not have been a star at all, but an extremely rare planetary alignment, according to a University of Notre Dame professor. Grant Matthews, professor of theoretical ...

There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see ... a depiction of an explosion, form a star, inspired by the Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to Jesus’s birth.

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 as one ...