This is the best image so far of the bright spot on Ceres - a "dwarf planet" which is the largest item in the asteroid belt; dwarf planet is a term which is not found to be derogatory.
Gravdigr had previously pointed to Ceres in another thread, but that was two and a half months ago; now NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone and orbited the dwarf (the subplanet, not Gravdigr) to get a better shot, and the strange, unsolved mystery light on the rock is much higher resolution, and we can all stare in wonder... because, obviously...
...we found them.
NASA's so-called "scientists" don't know why that light is there. They are claiming that this is not the alien horde waiting to attack our home planet, but rather might be a patch of reflective ice, or something volcanic, or outgassing. What do they know? I outgas all the time, and it looks nothing like this.
via mashable