Scientists found tungsten in Tycho Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there. A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time.

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Danish Tycho Brahe was most famous for his contributions to astronomy. However, he also had a well-equipped alchemical laboratory where he produced secret medicines for Europe's elite. In the ...

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer, studied alchemy to help make medical elixirs. Researchers found traces of tungsten in shards of glass and ceramic from his laboratory. Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for ...

Tycho Brahe (1546-1603) was a pioneering Danish astronomy instruments enthusiast in the decades before the telescope was used for peering at the sky. Aside from that and a big supernova discovery ...

While Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is best known for his celestial discoveries made in the 16th century — before the invention of the telescope — he was also an alchemist who brewed secret ...

"It may seem strange that Tycho Brahe was involved in both astronomy and alchemy, but when one understands his worldview, it makes sense. He believed that there were obvious connections between ...

A portrait of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, ca. 1590, overlaid on one of his diagrams of the sky and objects in the solar system. | Credit: Left: adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images Right ...