WHEN HALLEY PET SALLY
Sir Edmond Halley: His dog was even better at astronomy than him (Wikimedia Commons) In 1682, the astronomer Sir Edmond Halley correctly predicted that the great comet now bearing his name would return to the skies in 1758. He was right. But unfortunately he didn’t live to see his prediction come true, and died in 1742, at the age of 85, some sixteen years before its return. But if you think that’s an unfortunate story, in 2013 a team of researchers at Birkbeck University, Lo