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The scientific study of planets, stars, black holes, comets and other celestial bodies that make up outer space.
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Halley's comet
Astronomy; Comets
A comet that is very bright and that takes 76 years to make one complete orbit around the Sun.
Halley Comet
Astronomy; Comets
Halley’s Comet is the most famous of the short-period comets (with an orbit lasting 200 years or less) and it is also the only one of this type which is visible from Earth by ...
Harrington–Abell (comet)
Astronomy; Comets
Harrington–Abell is a periodic comet in our solar system. It was discovered by Robert G. Harrington and George O. Abell in 1955 on plates from the Palomar Sky Survey taken with ...
Arend–Rigaux (comet)
Astronomy; Comets
Arend–Rigaux is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 8.48 kilometers in diameter with a low albedo of 0.028. On 20 December 2058 the comet ...
Johnson (comet)
Astronomy; Comets
Johnson is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 5.7 kilometers in diameter by Lamy, Fernandez, and Weaver. David C. Jewitt and Scott S. ...
Ashbrook–Jackson (comet)
Astronomy; Comets
Ashbrook–Jackson is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 5.6 kilometers in diameter.
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