The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (APEX) has been used to solve a 340 year-old astronomical mystery. The findings reveal that an object that appeared in the sky in the 17th century was not a nova as astronomers at the time believed, but actually a rare stellar collision. .. Continue Reading APEX observations shed light on 17th-century star collision
Section: Space
Tags: ESO, European Southern Observatory, Telescope
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