Justify the title of story "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke.

The story “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke is based on a star that was called the Phoenix Nebula that exploded thousands of years before the time of the story’s writing. A crew of scientists, of which the narrator is a part, travels to the Phoenix Nebula to explore its remnants. To their amazement, they find the remnants of a planet still orbiting the Phoenix Nebula, a great distance away from it. On this planet, they discover the remains of an ancient civilization in a vault that must have been built specifically for the explosion.
Clearly, the people, knowing that they were bound to be destroyed by the explosion of their sun, had wanted to preserve elements of their culture for any future races that would chance on their planet. Among the things found in the vault are sculptures and “thousands of visual records, together with the machines needed to project them.” These show the inhabitants of the planet as “disturbingly human.” However, most interesting is the insinuation made by the narrator towards the end of the story: that the explosion of the nebula coincides with the sighting of a great star in Bethlehem at some point in our history. The reader is reminded of the great star that was sighted in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. Through the narrator, the story brings to light the contradictions that exist between science and religion.
The title of the short story is highly relevant, as it focuses on the object on which the story is based, the Phoenix Nebula.