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Halley's Comet is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years, and the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime. Halley last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid-2061. The comet's periodicity was first determined in 1705 by English astronomer Edmond Halley, after whom it is now named. Comet Aesthetic, Edmund Halley, Comets And Asteroids, Halley's Comet, The Comet, Bayeux Tapestry, Neutron Star, Tom Ford Makeup, Night Sky Photography

Halley's Comet is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years, and the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime. Halley last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid-2061. The comet's periodicity was first determined in 1705 by English astronomer Edmond Halley, after whom it is now named.

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The Great Comet of 1881 – Product – The Public Domain Review The Great Comet, Astronomy Poster, Astronomy Art, Antique Illustration, Old Maps, Scientific Illustration, To Infinity And Beyond, Astronomer, New York Public Library

One of the fifteen exquisite chromolithographs produced from pastel works by French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, for The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings published in 1882. After a somehwat disatrous foray into entomology (he accidentally introduced the highly destructive European Gyspy moth onto North American soil), Trouvelot turned to illustrating the heavens and was invited onto the staff of the Harvard College Observatory when the then director Joseph Winlock saw the…

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Comet Unknown (Starburst) Burning City, Natural Form Art, Utagawa Hiroshige, Historical Painting, Paintings Art Prints, Top Of The World, Buy Prints, Ancient Times, 16th Century

Illustration from a 16th-century treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France). Commonly known as *The Comet Book* (or *Kometenbuch* in German), its full title translates as “Comets and their General and Particular Meanings, According to Ptolomeé, Albumasar, Haly, Aliquind and other Astrologers”. ([Universitätsbibliothek Kassel](https://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/!metadata/1336039708836/5/-/), [CC-BY SA…

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