What Was the Star of Bethlehem?

The Biblical Gospel of Matthew describes a star appearing in the East at the time of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. For millennia, both believers and unbelievers, skeptics and the curious have wondered about the  Biblical account of the Star of Bethlehem.

Join Saint Mary's College's astrophysicist, Ron Olowin, to reinvestigate this popular symbol of the Christmas season.

Our Science Cafe conversation will combine current historical scholarship and astronomical facts in an effort to provide explanations, religious interpretations, review methods of determining the year of the historical Christ was born and depictions of the event in art and popular culture.