Tycho
/ˈtaɪ.kəʊ/ name
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- 1 Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer
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More examples"One night in 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw what he thought was a brilliant new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. (We now know he was observing a supernova.) In 1604, a second supernova was observed. These discoveries caused scientists to seriously question Ptolemy's theory that all stars were contained in an outermost sphere of the universe that never changed."