According to the Gospel of Matthew, the Star of Bethlehem guided three Magi, or wise men, to Jerusalem over 2,000 years ago. After consulting with King Herod of Judea, the men followed the star to ...

a bright star will shine high in the sky over the village for visitors to find their way. ‘And they find out they are in Bethlehem,” Bryant said. Admission to the village is free. Hebron ...

The star was likely not a star at all but a rare, once-in-several-millennia alignment of planets that would have grabbed the attention of the magi, and signified that a momentous birth had ...

That prompted some to dub the sight a “Christmas Star,” and others to wonder about a similar-sounding celestial event that coincided with the biblical first Christmas: the Star of Bethlehem.

With a bit of recorded Christmas music and a brief countdown, owners of the former Sparrows Point steel mill welcomed the winter holidays by lighting the mill’s traditional Star of Bethlehem on ...

has been studying the Star of Bethlehem for over a decade. "Astronomers, historians and theologians have pondered the question of the 'Christmas Star' for many years," said Matthews, in a press ...

Firstly, all the theories for the Star of Bethlehem, which invoke celestial alignments, have Jupiter as one of the bodies involved in such events. Jupiter was always seen as the Planet of Kings ...

The planets on their rounds have what astronomers call a “stationary point,” he said, and he believes that when the Bible tells of the star stopping over Bethlehem, it actually had reached its ...

Murray Thorson and Dr. Kristy Henscheid will present the fourth annual “The Star of Bethlehem” program at ... The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and will be filled ...

As they travelled to Bethlehem, the star would have stayed roughly ahead of them, heading south. Finally, and much more crucially, it stopped over Bethlehem. Another way to interpret this is that ...

The astronomical term is retrograde motion, and could explain why Matthew 2:9 states that the Star stood still over Bethlehem. (The birth of Jesus around 6 B.C. fits what scholars know from other ...

Consider it an early holiday gift for Bethlehem: The Church of the Nativity ... Dating to 339, and built over the site where many believe Jesus was born, the mosaic-floored church also landed ...