Halley

[hal-ee]

noun

1. Edmund or Edmond, 1656–1742, English astronomer.

Halley

/ ˈhælɪ /

noun

1. Edmund. 1656–1742, English astronomer and mathematician. He predicted the return of the comet now known as Halley's comet , constructed charts of magnetic declination, and produced the first wind maps

Example Sentences

The Orionid shower is made up of particles from Halley’s Comet burning in the atmosphere as Earth’s orbit intersects the comet’s path, according to NASA.

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They have long streaks of light and originate from the well- known Halley's Comet as it follows its orbit around the Sun.

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Games like The Last of Us, partly moulded by writers like Halley Gross, boast layered female characters at their core.

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Halley's Comet orbits the Sun in the opposite direction from Earth and we cross this orbit twice a year, the other time being early May, which gives us the Eta Aquariids meteor shower.

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In 1990, he created his own one-man show, “Halley’s Comet,” in which he played a man looking back across the century, and which he toured as recently as 2017.

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