And it's enough to make people like Berlin businessman Horst Freiberg, who never felt much love for the euro currency, pine more than ever for the return of the German mark.
We never know when exactly it's going to get very bright and this time it was kind enough to do just that when we had a very large number of telescopes trained on it.
The large size of the trial has led to concerns that the study will never collect enough events, or that it could drag on for years until after Zetia's patent expires in 2016.