The Star (short story) 3/28/2007

Today we read the short story "The Star." For me it was kind of difficult to understand, I had to go back and reread the story again to try and understand the story. From what I understand a guy who is an astronomer is explaining an event in his head that happened some thousand of years ago, and as he does this he refers to his father "God." A star or supernova exploded so brightly that was able to be seen in the daylight, and the astronomer is trying to figure out what may have caused the big explosion. And when researching he finds a secret civilization's things left behind. He believes that they were preparing themselves for the explosion way ahead in advance. To me he becomes quite found and interested in them because he puts so much time and effort studying them. He keeps contemplating to himself why might father have done this. His colleagues come to an conclusion that God did it, but has no reason to explain himself. But he still doesnt except this an answer to the conclusion. He eventually figures out what happens, but still cant understand why God chose this one particular star out of all the stars in the universe.