Flashback: Remembering the Great Comet of 1910.

The “other” comet in 1910…(Credit: Lowell Observatory).

1910 was a heady year both in astronomy and the world at large. The nationalism that would lead to World War I was still fermenting in Europe; the radio was the hot new IPod of the age, and silent movies were yet to be replaced by “talkies” over a decade [...]