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Japan's Hayabusa probe took this photo of the Earth, its moon and a starry background on May 12, 2010 as it limped home toward a planned June landing after visiting the asteroid Itokawa
Originally posted by stars15k
It looks for all the world like a smudge on the window from a dog's nose.
Seriously, given the overall fairly crappy resolution, it's must just be a glitch in information transfer.