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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Here's the rub

The ceiling of that Anglican Church mentioned below "shows how the sky would have appeared at sunset to a viewer at the latitude of Lunenburg who was facing east on December 24 — Christmas Eve — two millennia ago."

This fact was discovered by science journalist Dan Falk a one time resident of Nova Scotia now living in Toronto. The full story can be found on Astronomy.com