A brief morning update (EST) from Karl Battams, who studies sungrazing comets at the Naval Research Laboratory, confirms social media reports that Comet C/2012 S1 ISON appears to be getting fainter in images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). (To compare, you can see older images below the jump.) “Comet #ISON really is fading fast … Continue reading "ISON Appears To Be Fading, But Astronomers Keeping Eyes Peeled"