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.”
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