DECODING THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM : An analytical scientific approach to the unprecedented astronomical phenomenon that was finally the “Bethlehem Star”

We all wonder what happened that marked the era of the coming of Christ, what unusual phenomenon urged the Magi and drew their route west bound. Was it all fiction, concocted by the Apostles to bestow sanctity to the birth of Jesus, or was it in fact a celestial event, a rare planetary occurrence that led the Magi on their journey, as described in the Gospels.