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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]
The Star of Bethlehem is shown as a comet above the child. Giotto witnessed an appearance of Halley's Comet in 1301. The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, [1] appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 where "wise men from the East" are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.
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]
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.
Although mutual occultations of planets had been recorded in 581, [1] 1170, [2] 1590, [3] and 1737, [4] the first attempt to list past and future occultations of that nature was not made until 1970 during a manual search for conjunctions, in which Jan Meeus and Michael Walch discovered further occultations in 1522 [a] and 1570, [b] published in ...
Sept. 7: Total lunar eclipse. The second total lunar eclipse of 2025 will fall on Sept. 7, according to NASA. People will be able to see it in parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
(From Cincinnati, for instance, Mars will be blocked by the moon from about 9:06 p.m.-10:17 p.m.) March 13-14: Total lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse is coming in March 2025.
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.