According to this BBC News article the supernova discovered by famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1572 – that helped introduce a new way of looking at the Universe when it was first described in “De Stella Nova” in 1573 – and the enigma of which has been baffling astronomers for centuries may finally have been resolved.
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