😯👉☄️ Get excited — Halley’s Comet is heading back toward Earth. Save the date: 2061. After drifting to the outer reaches of the solar system, Halley’s Comet has begun its long journey back toward the Sun — and toward us. This legendary comet, the most famous periodic visitor in the night sky, reached its most distant point from the Sun (called aphelion) on December 9, 2023, about 35 astronomical units away. Now it is slowly moving inward again, picking up speed as the Sun’s gravity pulls it ba