A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...
References in the Gospel of Matthew state the guiding star was found in the eastern sky. Molnar believes the star was Jupiter, which emerged in the east as a morning star on April 17, 6 B.C. Having an ...
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 ...
This month's Public Astronomy Night at the Southern Cayuga Planetarium will focus on the upcoming holidays. The planetarium will present a program titled "Mystery of the Christmas Star" that tells the ...
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Was Jesus really born in Bethlehem? Why the Gospels disagree over the circumstances of Christ’s birth
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...
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