comets Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/comets/ Astronomy author and speaker Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:09:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png comets Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/comets/ 32 32 166732936 The ingenious way Victorian astronomers communicated comet discoveries https://www.colinstuart.net/ingenious-way-victorian-astronomers-communicated-comets/ https://www.colinstuart.net/ingenious-way-victorian-astronomers-communicated-comets/#respond Mon, 15 May 2017 10:10:55 +0000 https://colinstuart.net/?p=4962 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 hampering astronomical progress. The trouble was with comets – […]

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