The End of the World is a 1916 Danish science fiction drama film directed by August Blom and written by Otto Rung, starring Olaf Fønss and Ebba Thomsen. The film depicts a worldwide catastrophe when a
Poster of the film The End of the World
Halley's Comet
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Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing roughly every 75–76 years, though with the majority of recorded apparitions occu
Halley's Comet photographed by William Liller from Easter Island on 8 March 1986
"I must entreat you to procure for me of Mr Flamsteed what he has observed of the Comett of 1682 particularly in the month of September, for I am more and more confirmed that we have seen that Comett now three times, since yͤ Yeare 1531, he will not deny it you, though I know he will me." —Excerpt of Halley's letter to Newton about comet's orbits (September 28, 1695)
Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (portrait attributed to William Williams, c. 1760). The only contemporary illustration of an astronomer detecting the comet's return.
Orionid meteor originating from Halley's Comet streaking the sky below the Milky Way and to the right of Venus