As the story goes, about 2020 years ago on Sept. 11, 3 B.C., wise men in the East noticed an unusually bright star in the western sky. We now know with a very high degree of certainty that the celestial object they saw was a conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter, which separately are the two brightest objects that can be seen in the evening sky. When the orbits of the … [Read more...] about The Venus and Jupiter Conjunction of November 12-13, 2017