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How Jupiter could resemble a ‘Christmas star’ this weekend. Astronomers have many theories about the fabled “Star of Bethlehem” mentioned in the Bible. December 6, 2024. 3 min.

Astronomers believe the Star of Bethlehem or "Christmas Star" could have been Jupiter, Venus, or Mars—or possibly a combination of the three—as each of the planets are near their peak ...

Four years later, in the summer of 3 B.C., Jupiter and Venus met in an event that would have looked much like the “Christmas Star,” also referred to as the Great Conjunction of December 2020.

The theory that the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn may be the Star of Bethlehem is not new. It was proposed in the early 17th century by Johannes Kepler , a German astronomer and mathematician.

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