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This article argues that the Star of Bethlehem is a historical fiction influenced by the appearance of Halley's Comet in AD 66. Larson, Frederick A. What Was the Star? Nicholl, Colin R., The Great Christ Comet: Revealing the True Star of Bethlehem Archived 2016-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. Crossway, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4335-4213-8
The Star of Bethlehem is a 2007 documentary by Frederick A. "Rick" Larson to show what he found when he searched for clues about the Star of Bethlehem.Larson used the Starry Night astronomy computer program along with an article written by astronomer Craig Chester; [1] [2] [3] based in part on the work of Ernest Martin. [4]
Astronomers believe the Star of Bethlehem or "Christmas Star" could have been a real event explained by something as simple as Jupiter in opposition, which happens this year on Dec. 7.
The looping motion of Mars as seen from Earth is shown here. Chester said Jupiter's retrograde motion could explain how the Star of Bethlehem appeared to "stop". [4] [2] Craig Chester suggested the Star of Bethlehem "stopping" referred to in the biblical narrative [22] could have been what astronomers call a "stationary point". [2]
In astronomy, planetary transits and occultations occur when a planet passes in front of another object, as seen by an observer.The occulted object may be a distant star, but in rare cases it may be another planet, in which case the event is called a mutual planetary occultation or mutual planetary transit, depending on the relative apparent diameters of the objects.
Martin proposed a recalculation of the birth of Jesus in his books The Birth of Christ Recalculated (1978) and The Star that Astonished the World (1996). He argued that the " Star of Bethlehem " was the planet Jupiter, called Zedeq ("Righteousness") in Hebrew, leading the wise men to Jesus in Bethlehem on December 25, 2 BCE, coinciding with the ...
Christmas comes early this year, as “Journey to Bethlehem” puts words (and music) in the mouths of all who bore witness to Jesus’ birth. Some of those tunes — like “Silent Night” and ...
Occultation of Uranus during the lunar eclipse on 8 November 2022. Occultation of a star by the Moon. The term occultation is most frequently used to describe lunar occultations, those relatively frequent occasions when the Moon passes in front of a star during the course of its orbital motion around the Earth.