as many others did. This is what happened when Halley’s Comet was expected to be visible from Earth in 1910. Back in the 1700s, an astronomer by the name of Edmond Halley predicted that three ...

The Messier catalog, popular with amateur astronomers, was actually just a by-product of comet hunting. The aim was to avoid ...

Following the news that the Pompidou Centre is closing for five years, another famous French attraction is shutting down for ...

11. Why is Halley’s Comet famous? The main reason is that it was the first comet whose return was predicted. In 1705, British astronomer Edmond Halley declared that the comets that appeared in ...

Other standout moments include a depiction of Halley’s comet, some six centuries before the birth of Edmond Halley, the English astronomer after which it would one day be named. Unsurprisingly ...

Insurance has always revolved around numbers, but Edmund Halley – he of the comet – highlighted the power of data. Before he became famed as an astronomer, Halley used information from Wroclaw in ...

For example, Edmond Halley, the discoverer of the eponymous comet, thought the star of Bethlehem was also a comet. Jerusalem’s sky on November 12th, 7 BC, with Jupiter and Saturn in conjunction. Even ...

The Edmund Scientific Corp. stopped making these cute ... One of the first things she found with her new telescope was Halley’s comet rounding the sun in 1986. She also used the scope, which she ...