Halleyβs Comet or Comet Halley is a short-period comet that is visible to the naked eye from the Earth. It was named after the English mathematician and astronomer Edmond Halley, who was the first to calculate the orbit of a comet. This comet is officially called 1P/Halley where P indicates that Halley is a periodic …
For the first time, a scientist of Sri Lankan origin has received the discovery credit to an asteroid. The University of Colombo alumnus, Dr. Nalin Samarasinha and Dr. Todd Lauer discovered this asteroid in 2000. On March 21, 2022, the International Astronomical Union(IAU) officially announced this asteroid as ” Colombounilanka ” to honor the University …
