Look to the east after dark this week, and you’ll see a dazzlingly bright “star” in the evening sky. Is it the legendary Christmas Star? It’s Jupiter at opposition, an annual astronomical ...

The “Christmas Star” may have been a conjunction ... but it spent most of 2023 as a bright “Evening Star.” One theory has the “Star of Bethlehem” as a rare sky event called a ...

This year, bright planets Jupiter and Saturn will align perfectly on Dec. 21 to create what is commonly called the Christmas Star or the “Star of Bethlehem.” According to NASA, Jupiter and ...