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Halley's cometHal‧ley's com‧et /ˌhæliz ˈkɒmət, ˌheɪl- $ -ˌkɑː-/ a comet (=an object in space like a bright ball with a long tail) that moves around the Sun and passes close to the Earth every 76 years. It was named after the English astronomer Edmund Halley (1656–1742) , and it last appeared close to the Earth in 1986. |