☄️ Comet
Halley’s Comet
The most famous comet, back roughly every 76 years.
- Goes round the Sun
- every 76 Earth years
- Discovered
- Seen for more than 2,000 years
Did you know?
- It was last seen from Earth in 1986 and will be back in 2061.
More NASA photos of Halley’s CometStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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