(NewsNation) — For more than two millennia, the Star of Bethlehem has captured the imagination of believers, scientists and historians alike. Described in the Gospel of Matthew as the celestial sign ...

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Astronomers have long sought a cosmic explanation for the Bible’s Star of Bethlehem, the shining celestial object that, so the story goes, guided the wise men, or magi, from Jerusalem to greet the ...

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 ...

The Star of Bethlehem has remained a perplexing enigma ever since Matthew penned his gospel’s second chapter, which included the account of the star pointing the Magi, or astrologers, to the baby ...