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A rare manuscript about eclipses just sold for $255,000 at auction. Its author was the man who...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoEdmond Halley was an inventive astronomer who is best known for discovering the periodic return of...
7 times a total solar eclipse revolutionized science
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 months agoClouds can block out and ruin the total solar eclipse.Laurie Ambrose/Getty Images Humans have been studying total solar eclipses for millennia to better...
Halley’s Comet Gearing Up for Its Return Journey Toward Earth
Futurism via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMiddle Path It's been nearly 40 years since Halley's comet last flew by Earth — and very soon, it...
Halley's comet is on its way back towards Earth
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoComet P/Halley as taken March 8, 1986 by W. Liller, Easter Island, part of the International Halley Watch (IHW) Large Scale Phenomena Network. One of the...
Halley’s Comet meteor shower peaks this weekend. How to get a view near Modesto
Modesto Bee via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIf you’re in the right spot this weekend, you might be lucky enough to catch glowing streaks in the...
Famous birthdays for Nov. 8: Alfre Woodard, Parker Posey
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAlfre Woodard attends Netflix's premiere of "The Gray Man" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in the...
Meteors from famous Halley’s Comet to peak over SC soon. Here’s when and how best to watch
The State via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoSouth Carolinians have the best chance to see a meteor shower created by the famous Halley’s Comet...
Halley's Comet has begun its return journey to Earth
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThis view of Comet Halley's nucleus was obtained by the Giotto spacecraft as it passed within 600 km of the comet nucleus on March 13, 1986. After...
Stargazing in June: A tale of proper motion
The Independent UK via AOL· 12 months agoAstronomers call a star’s slow creep across the sky its ‘proper motion,’ writes Nigel Henbest. Because of the stars’ proper motions, the shapes of the...
Halley’s Comet Is Headed Back Our Way
SYFY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn Wes Anderson’s latest stylized cinematic tale, the titular Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock) crops up around an impact crater in the desert....
