Ancient supernova mystery solved

Courtesy BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition  Wed, 12/03/2008 - 8:57pm

Astronomers have captured light echoes of the historic supernova of 1572, which overturned Aristotle's theory of the universe.



 

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