If you're old enough, do you remember seeing Halley's Comet — the most famous of all celestial nomads — when it swung past our neck of the cosmic woods in 1986? I did, and I wasn't terribly impressed.

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A medieval monk may have beaten Edmond Halley to one of astronomy’s greatest discoveries by nearly 700 years. Researchers say Eilmer of Malmesbury recognized that the blazing comet seen in 1066 was ...

Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its movements through space, but he wasn't the first to discover its periodic orbit past Earth, new research suggests.