Two wonderful, but commonly unknown factoids:
The Koine Greek word used by Paul for "long" as in long hair, is where we get the word "comet".
See:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/comet?s=t
In ancient Greek and Latin, the words for a comet, both literally translate to "hairy stars" (
aster cometes and
stella cometa, respectively).
Here is a computer simulated depiction of Halley's Comet created for a National Geographic Special:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...halleys-comet/