{"title":"The Supernova in Galileo’s Starry Sky and Its Impact on Astronomy","authors":"Alessandro De Angelis","doi":"10.21814/jus.5233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 1604, the last of the supernovae seen with the naked eye in the Milky Way had a great impact on the history of astronomy and cosmology. Scientists with different conceptions of the Universe - among them Galilei and Kepler but also Arab and Chinese astronomers - competed and collaborated to explain its nature, its origin and its astrological meaning. Even today, we still observe what remains of that supernova, and we learn about stellar astrophysics.","PeriodicalId":377969,"journal":{"name":"Journal UMinho Science","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal UMinho Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21814/jus.5233","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1604, the last of the supernovae seen with the naked eye in the Milky Way had a great impact on the history of astronomy and cosmology. Scientists with different conceptions of the Universe - among them Galilei and Kepler but also Arab and Chinese astronomers - competed and collaborated to explain its nature, its origin and its astrological meaning. Even today, we still observe what remains of that supernova, and we learn about stellar astrophysics.