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The Star of Bethlehem is only known from a few verses in the Gospel ofMatthew, with the Star inspiring and leading the Magi (i.e., Persianastrologers) to Jerusalem and ultimately worshipping the young Jesus Christ inBethlehem. In the last four centuries, astronomers have put forth over a dozengreatly different naturalistic explanations, all involving astronomical events,often a bright nova, supernova, or comet. This paper will evaluate oneprominent recent proposal, that the Star was a 'recurrent nova' now cataloguedas DO Aquilae, and provide three refutations. In particular, (1) DO Aql iscertainly not a recurrent nova, but rather an ordinary nova with a recurrencetime scale of over a million years, (2) in its 1925 eruption, DO Aql certainlynever got brighter than 8.5 mag, and the physics of the system proves that itcould never get to the required luminosity of a supernova, and (3) the Magiwere astrologers who had no recognition or interpretation for novae (orsupernovae or comets) so any such event is completely irrelevant andmeaningless to them.

The Star of Bethlehem is Not the Nova DO Aquilae (Nor Any Other Nova, Supernova, or Comet)