City-size comet racing toward Earth regrows 'horns' after massive volcanic eruption
City-size comet racing toward Earth regrows 'horns' after massive volcanic eruption
The cryovolcanic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, which will make its closest approach to Earth next year, has re-sprouted its distinctive "horns" after its second major eruption in four months.
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What a disgusting clickbait title 🤮. The comet is not "racing towards Earth" any more than say Mars is (and Mars comes closer to Earth than this comet will). Maybe some day we'll live in a world where journalists do not sensationalize headlines with a mix of Deep Impact and The Ninth Gate, but today is not that day.
On Mander, fighting the clickbait pop science menace is every citizen's duty. Are you doing your part?
I think they are. I checked the comments before clicking on the article and that comment prevented me from rewarding that clickbaiter.
The poster is just submitting the article as titled, and the scientists are just making cool observations not bothering anyone. The fault for clickbait lies solely with the journalists/editors. I wish instead of continuing the practice from that other site of "submission title must match article title", we normalize the culture of writing our own plain language de-clickbait-ified titles, the way HackerNews does it.
"City-size" at least they didn't measure in football fields.
Well shit. So this comet isn't bringing any jobs I guess.
Most science news and YT science channels are nothing but clickbait shit unfortunately. Would be probably my favorite topic but I just can't stand its presentation.