Novelist Joshua Gilder (Ghost Image) and his wife, former TV producer and investigative reporter Anne-Lee Gilder, offer a startling twist on the story of the troubled relationship of Tycho Brahe and ...

In Astronomy's 2022 list of the 20 greatest astronomers of all time, Associate Editor Michael Bakich ranked Tycho Brahe No. 2 ...

In November 1572, a brilliant new star appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, shining so brightly that it was visible during the day. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe carefully documented this ...

A statue of Brahe and Kepler in Prague. Prague was also the last place, the grave of Brahe is still in the old town of Prague Church of Our Lady before Týn It is in Tycho Brahe, who observed and ...

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler were both obsessed with the heavens, but otherwise had little in common. Tycho -- like Galileo, he is often remembered by his first name -- was the greatest astronomer ...

Fauber, a UC-Riverside PhD student in computer science, seamlessly merges biography, history, and science in this amazing look at the four 16th-century astronomers whose work revealed the heliocentric ...

PRAGUE — Some contend it was a crime of passion committed by a jealous king. Others insist it was murder inspired by professional rivalry between two celebrated astronomers. Or maybe it was a death by ...

This is a watercolour of Tycho Brahe from around 1600 as he looked shortly before his death. His bushy mustache and slightly deformed nose with its prosthesis are visible. Both have been analyzed by ...

Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer. The results should put ...