A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

The nucleus of Halley's comet, which is considered to be fairly ... the understanding of the origin of our solar system. Infrared observations revealed that Hyakutake's nucleus is loaded with ...

IN accordance with the recommendations of the Special Committee on Antarctic Research the programme of auroral observation conducted during the International Geophysical Year at Halley Bay ...

Halley's Comet is one of the most famous celestial ... The comet has since been connected to ancient observations going back more than 2,000 years. It is featured in the famous Bayeux tapestry.

EDMUND HALLEY was a very great man. He was not only the first to predict correctly the return of a comet, that which ... What suggested this notion was an observation I had made, that all the ...

One of the oldest-known meteor showers, with observations dating back 2,700 ... Created from debris trails from Halley’s Comet, the eta Aquariids can be seen from both the Northern and Southern ...

PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:'Halley collated tables of all the comet observations he could find, 'looking for similarities in their behaviour. 'What direction they came from. 'How close they got to the sun.

"We had a lot of observations by that point to understand ... and surmised it was the same comet, coming back around. Halley in 1705 predicted that comet would be observed again in 1758.

T Coronae Borealis, a faint star in the Northern Crown constellation, is on the verge of exploding in a nova, which occurs ...