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File:Comet-Halley's-tail-NASA-1986-b&w.jpg

Comet-Halley's-tail-NASA-1986-b&w.jpg(325 × 346 pixels, file size: 30 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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English: A photograph of all of Halley's Comet during its pass through the inner Solar System in 1986, including the comet's coma and its head.
Date 1986
Source http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/halcom01.gif (archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20041030181121/http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/halcom01.gif)
Author NASA

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