ISON is gone

ISON is gone, ripped apart as it grazed the Sun. C/2012 S1 is an ex-comet. Quiet all of a sudden. Nobody know's what to do... it seems.

I keep thinking about all the "comet of the century" headlines. I hope those posters learned something. But probably not.

When have magazines and newspapers not sensationalised things? To sell a few more copies.

The only good news out of all this is that we (the serious scientists and astronomers) learned a little bit more about these fickle harbingers.