Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Great conjunction
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== 7 BC === [[File:Sky Jerusalem South-7BC-11-12.gif|thumb|A simulated view of the great conjunction of 7 BC as viewed from [[Jerusalem]] on the evening of 12 November.|upright=1.4]] When studying the great conjunction of 1603, [[Johannes Kepler]] thought that the [[Star of Bethlehem]] might have been the occurrence of a great conjunction. He calculated that a triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurred in 7 BC (β6 using [[astronomical year numbering]]);<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem |last=Burke-Gaffney |first=W. |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada]] |year=1937 |volume=31 |page=417 |bibcode=1937JRASC..31..417B |url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1937JRASC..31..417B |access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Michael R. |last=Molnar |title=The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |year=1999}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)