At the American Museum of Natural History here in New York, I had the pleasure of experiencing both at the same time.

Jesus' birth might be dated to Spring 5 BC ... astronomers in the Han Dynasty recorded the passage of a 'Broom Star' sweeping its way across the sky for 70 days. Although the comet has never ...

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably ... In popular devotion she was a sky goddess always dressed in blue. She was the goddess of the moon and the star of the sea (stella maris).

That is the premise of the Adler Planetarium’s “Star of Wonder” sky show, which suggests that the birth of Jesus really did correspond to extraordinary celestial events chronicled in the New ...

during the year 7 B.C. It's conceivable that that combined light in the sky was recorded as a star, and associated with Jesus' birth, and thus named the Christmas Star, according to EarthSky.

The three wise men, or Magi, arrived after Jesus' birth carrying gold ... The gospel tells us that a bright star appeared in the eastern sky when Jesus was born, famously seen by a group of wise men.

It goes on to describe their meeting with the local Jewish king named Herod, of whom they inquire about the location of Jesus’ birth. The Gospel says that the star of Bethlehem subsequently ...

The Bible says a star appeared in the sky which guided the three wise men to the stable where Jesus was born where they gave him gifts. But alien hunters claim no star would move in such a way ...

As for Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth ... Then you take into account the star’s movement, in the space of a couple of months, from the eastern morning sky to the southern evening sky ...

I will try to reconcile these various accounts of the birth of Jesus Christ. Firstly, all the theories for the Star of Bethlehem, which invoke celestial alignments, have Jupiter as one of the ...

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