Was heißt »Haar­stern« auf Englisch?

Englische Beispielsätze

• He announced the discovery of a new comet.

• After the death of Caesar, a comet shone for seven days.

• Rosetta will try to land on a comet in a few hours.

• Rosetta's probe, Philae, has successfully landed on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

• In July of 1994, Jupiter was hit by pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy comet. Dark areas appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere after the large pieces hit the planet.

• When William Herschel discovered Uranus, he at first thought he had discovered a comet.

• When Ceres was first discovered it was called a comet. Within a year it was called a planet. Within one more year it was called an asteroid. Since 2006, it has been called a dwarf planet.

• The earliest known record of a comet sighting was made by an astrologer of the Chinese court in 1059 B.C.

• Each time the comet passes close to the Sun, it loses some of its material. Over time, it will break up and disappear completely.

• Halley's comet makes an appearance once every 76 years.

• Halley's comet was named after Sir Edmond Halley.

• Records show that Halley's Comet has been observed for over 2000 years. Confirmed sightings of the comet go back to 240 B.C.

• Clyde Tombaugh also discovered several star clusters, a comet and more than a hundred asteroids.

• The Cosmic Dust Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center contains the largest collection of comet debris on Earth.

• That's how he discovered the comet.

• Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet.

• Hubble images taken in October 2013 and March 2014 show two jets of dust coming from the comet's core, or nucleus.

• The comet created excitement among astronomers because it passed very close to Mars.

• More than 65 million years ago, a large comet hit Earth, leading to the demise of the dinosaurs and most of the planet's other species.

• Halley is perhaps the most famous comet in history.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Him­mels­kör­per:

celestial body

Pilz:

fungus