An Australian astronomer, Dave Reneke, has recreated the night sky around the time of Christ’s birth. The software demonstrates that a “beacon of light” would have been visible across the eastern dawn sky as Venus and Jupiter moved across the constellation of Leo on June 17, 2BC.
The conjunction of the planets was so close, he said the planets would have appeared as one bright star even with the naked eye. “Astronomy is such a precise science, we can plot exactly where the planets were. It certainly seems this is the fabled Christmas star.”
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24764536-2,00.html?from=public_rss
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George // November 16, 2009 at 11:57 pm |
Unfortuately his reding of the scripture is not so accurate. It does NOT state that Jesus was BORN at the appearance of any bright star/s . these were only mentioned at a much later date after his birth! Jesus was born on the same day that Noah left the Ark 2365 years previous !!! ie NOT 25th December !
epiphanist // November 17, 2009 at 9:54 am |
Nice to hear from you. I probably like Reneke’s theory because: a)he is Australian and b)I could look up the nativity event with free software on my own computer.