For Swift Fox and others interested in astronomy

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"A comet usually too faint to be seen with the naked eye has brightened by a factor of a million since Tuesday, suggesting its surface may have cracked open and expelled clouds of dust and gas."

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12837-comet-brightens-mysteriously-by-a-factor-of-a-million.html

Also, the Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes

Sounds like it'd be something neat to take a look at. According to the wiki article, it's dropped from a magnitude of 17 to just 2.8.