There's no way that's a photo, given that this is the best we can do of Ceres, a relatively close planetoid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc

There's no way that's a photo, given that this is the best we can do of Ceres, a relatively close planetoid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Ceres_optimized.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Ceres_opt... UPDATE: Here's its wikipedia page. 100 light years way from earth, so there is no way it's a photo. Also, wikipedia calls it a brown dwarf, which would explain the temperature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFBDSIR2149-0403 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFBDSIR2149-0403