In the autumn of 1618 the devastating thirty years' war had begun when three bright comets appeared in the sky, this was taken as an omen for the coming disaster.

Until the comet of 1577 it was assumed that they were features within the atmosphere of the Earth. However Tycho Brahe observed this comet and saw it go behind the Moon, it had to be out in space beyond the Earth.

This is the closest bright comet to fly past the Earth, it missed us by just 10 million km.

One of the brightest comets ever seen, as comets were always linked with dire events the comet of 1264 was linked with the death of Pope Urban IV

The great comet of 1106 was a sungrazer comet and was seen around the world.

The comet of 44 BCE, many would say it caused the death of Julius Caesar, it appeared in the sky a few weeks after his assassination

Here is a simple introduction to one of the flimsy members of the solar system, comets.

The second brightest star in the smallest constellation in the sky, Crux the Southern Cross. Beta is sometimes known as Mimosa.

The faintest of the three stars that form the summer triangle, yet Deneb is actually the brightest. It appears fainter than Altair and Vega simply because it is much further away.

The most southerly of the first magnitude stars as seen from Britain.