Halley’s comet may be named after the wrong person
The Great Rewrite: Why We Are Re-evaluating the History of the Stars For centuries, the story of 1P/Halley has been a triumph of the Enlightenment—a tale of Edmond Halley using Newtonian physics to predict the return of a celestial wanderer. But recent research is flipping the script. The discovery that a medieval monk, Eilmer of … Read more