Popular Culture
"The Star" was an episode of the Twilight Zone during its run in the 1980's, based on a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke.
A distant space ship comes across a super-nova that was calculated to have occurred in approximately 3,000BC, at a distace of 3,000 light-years. A well-developed civilization was eradicated by the super-nova and one of the astronauts, who was also a priest, had a crisis of faith about why God would let such a civilization die to herald the birth of Christ. Another astronaut shows him a recording from that civilization populace stating that they realized they were at the peak of their time and had to make way for a new people. They had left their art and music behind as a legacy to the future generations.Read more about this topic: Star Of Bethlehem
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