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The ingenious way Victorian astronomers communicated comet discoveries

The ingenious way Victorian astronomers communicated comet discoveries

by colinstuart | May 15, 2017 | Astronomy, Explainer, History

In today’s hyper-connected world we take communication for granted. A few taps and you can fire a message around the world in seconds. You can even tweet from space. But things weren’t also so easy, and back in the 1880s the technology of the day was...

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