The mysterious star of Bethlehem could be real an astronomical event
It does about 2000 years, the magicians of East saw an incredible star illuminating the Engaged Earth sky they followed and it in a epic trip to know the new Mesías. But what is really the Star of Bethlehem?
Modern science is revealing one of the more famous astronomical mysteries of history. New technologies allow the astronomers to create maps of the old sky nocturne with an extraordinary precision. As they study the movements of planets and stars, the experts are questioning the theory that assures that it was a comet. They think that Kings Magos could descry several unusual astronomical events.
The Bible says to us very little on this star and she only appears mentioned in the Gospel of San Mateo.
Where he is the king of the Jews, who has been born? Because its star we have seen in the east and we come to adore to him, the magicians would have asked themselves. Any date or description is not included. Until the identity of the men it is not clear. Instead of being the kings in imaginary the popular one, one thinks that Kings Magos were Persian priests met like magi in Latin.
They were astrologers who guided by stars, combining faith and science to predict the birth of the new Mesías. What caused that they cheered up to travel to Bethlehem? The majority of the experts agrees in which Jesus was born before year 4 a. C. or in that same date, when Herodes the Great one reigned in Judea. The astronomers have identified the following four stellar events that could have been the Star of Bethlehem.
TRIPLE PLANET CONJUNCTION
An old almanac enrolled in a clay table found in Babylon and at the moment in the British Museum of London assures that the star was in fact one unusual planet conjunction.
Concretely, it was a series of three conjunctions of the planets Jupiter and Saturn (a fact very little frequent) happened in 7 year a. C.
Jupiter and Saturn combined three times within several months during the constellation of Piscis, a sign associated with Israel.
Tests in the almanac exist that the Persian astronomers predicted this. The table calculates the solar activity, lunar and planetary for that year and describes the conjunction.
ECLIPSE DE JUPITER
A currency of 2000 years of antiquity would prove this theory, one double Jupiter concealment after the moon happened in the 6 a. C. that would be the star of Bethlehem.
According to the theory, the magicians saw the star in the constellation of Aries, not the one of Piscis. The currency shows Aries, the sheep, jumping in the sky and watching back towards the star.
The astrological texts of the time reflect that Aries dominated Judea and Jerusalem was the capital of the Near East, becoming sign of the Jews.
Professor Mike Molnar of the University of Rutgers in New Jersey, in the United States, thinks that the magicians saw this eclipse. Just before the dawn, Jupiter would have appeared by the east, at the precise moment in that San Mateo described the appearance of the Star.
Then, when the moon happened directly between the Earth and Jupiter, this one last planet would have disappeared.
SUPERNOVA
Some think that the star could have been the result of a still greater celestial event.
Mark Kidger, astronomer of the European Space Agency, affirms that it would much more have required that an unusual planet movement to convince to astronomical the expert tannings of that time to travel until Judea.
The magicians could have seen a star in their phase supernovates, one of the power events and explosive than they are known.
Kidger until has identified a candidate, the DO Aquilae that exploded in 1927 and which surely it has operated several times in the past.
In case of to have exploded for 2,000 years, they would have seen it to the magicians in the east, showing itself over the horizon.
The expert hope that the radio telescopes of the future are able to detect the weak gas bubble around Aquilae to calculate the exact moment at which the bubble began to expand.
TWO PLANETS THAT PARECIAN A SHINING LIGHT
This theory is most surprising. The date of Christmas was established centuries after the event and they question many it.
But Texan astronomer Rick Larson thinks that Jesus really was born the 25 from December, although of year 2 before ours he was.
Unlike other astronomers, Larson one has paid attention to later celestial events because it thinks that the date of the death of king Herodes (4 a. C.) is incorrect.
The date is based on writings of the Josephus historian, but each manuscript his that has studied previous to 1544 agrees in which Herodes died in the 1 a. C.
Jupiter later combined a year with one of the stars most shining of the firmament, well-known Regulus call and by the magicians like small king.
Nine months later, Jupiter combined with Venus, well-known like the planet mother.
The planets would have passed so close the one of which it would have seemed like a shining light in the sky. Larson thinks that this light was the one that convinced the magicians to travel to the east.
During its trip, Jupiter continued moving throughout the sky until it seemed to pause on Bethlehem.
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