The End of the World Part 3

This is a blip of the night sky and a supernova.................of course I cheated it's a neat filter on Gimp, but it is the night sky out of my back door this evening :-)
Here is the next instalment on my apocalyptic series.

PART THREE: HALLEY'S COMET, 1910

It's not always religion. In 1910, the front page of The New York Times reported that Earth was directly in line with the tail of Halley's Comet, which contained cyanogen, which was related to cyanide, which everyone would surely die. Other papers picked up the story, and the result was full-blown global panic. A few astronomers convened to report there was nothing to worry about, but the panic didn't subside until the comet had safely passed our great globe by.
(Relevant Jan/Feb 13)