Scientists have discovered new clues about the supernova remnant called Tycho. The researchers used NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to look at polarized X-rays.

IN NATURE (vol. xv., p. 406) is published a copy of a portrait of Tycho Brahe in the possession of Dr. Crompton of Manchester. Although it seems, from the inscription in the corner, that the ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

The supernova reported by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (and many others, independently) occurred in the constellation Cassiopeia. Tycho noticed the “new” star on November 11, 1572, after ...

Had Tycho's star held its breath for just another few centuries, astrophysicists may have recorded a shower of cosmic rays at the highest of magnitudes.

The new evidence suggests the famed Tycho supernova, located about 13,000 light-years from Earth,formed when its parent star stripped too much material from a nearby companion, forcing it to ...

The exploded remains of supernova Tycho were discovered 450 years ago. Shakespeare would have been 8 years old then and could have seen the supernova some experts say citing an early passage in ...

Tycho’s Supernova Remnant (SNR) resulted from the explosion of a white dwarf star. The model shows how Tycho's SNR might appear at an age of 1,000 years, after evolving from its current age of 447 ...

The red circle visible in the upper left part of the image is SN 1572, informally called “Tycho’s Supernova”. We now know that the object that was observed from 1572-74 was a supernova ...

The supernova remnant is called Tycho, named for Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who noticed the bright glow of this new “star” in the constellation Cassiopeia in 1572.

According to NASA, the Tycho supernova blast itself released as much energy as the Sun would put out over the course of 10 billion years. The blast was visible to many on Earth in 1572.

Archeologists are exhuming 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe to solve long-standing mysteries over the famed Danish scientist's health and, possibly, his death.