Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley was born in 1656. While studying at the University of Oxford, he became interested in ASTRONOMY. He left university early to travel to the South Atlantic where he documented the celestial position of 341 stars. He later met Isaac Newton and helped him to publish his groundbreaking theories about gravity.

Halley catalogued lots of stars, including a cluster in the Centaurus constellation.

Halley’s Comet is the only comet visible to the naked eye, and might appear twice in a person’s lifetime.

Halley’s Comet

In 1705, Halley made his most famous discovery. He noticed that descriptions of comets sighted in 1531, 1607, and 1682 were very similar. He eventually realized that these sightings were actually all of the same comet that came near to Earth roughly every 76 years. He correctly PREDICTED that it would return in 1758, but sadly died Edmond Halley The scientist who predicted the reappearance of the world’s before seeing his prediction come true. Halley’s famous book describes the orbits of 24 comets. Halley’s calculations proved that comets revolve around the Sun. His work also confirmed that Newton’s laws of gravity are applicable to all celestial bodies. How he changed… the wor ld MOST FAMOUS COMET