Study illuminates star explosion from 16th century

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NEW YORK – More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw.

It's not really a ground-breaking find today, but the observation made by Tycho de Brahe and the follow-up study of his was quite challenging those days:

Working before telescopes were invented, Brahe documented with precision that unlike the moon and the planets, the light's position didn't move in relation to the stars. That meant it lay far beyond the moon. That was a shock to the contemporary view that the distant heavens were perfect and unchanging.

The process of learning could be tedious one to the human mind. Once we learn and master something, we want to keep it that way and excel in our expertise. But there are folks out there who learn fast and easy; they are not those likely to look the other way when the previously established order of things blows the gasket.

Did Tycho de Brahe leave a note with his explanation of what that WTF thing in the sky could be?






[edit on 12/4/2008 by stander]

Its just a common Super Nova.