If I want artistic freedom, I can watch video games or movies (where lots of hubble images end up anyway). So the more scientifically correct you can get, the better. Using non natural colors is OK, but even then it would be good if every movie / image would identify which colors are original and what is artistic freedom. I suspect a large number of people believe that many artistically colored images show normal spectrum images. -Bernd

News from the twilight zone... the ghosts are inside the bed sheets ;-) I have to correct myself here. After some more experiments I did indeed found a way to wake up the GHOSTS... And that is indeed by just shaking the blanket and then quickly making lots of images with a flashlight. Surprisingly it sometimes leads to exactly the same pattern. Thanks for the hint!

I would agree if it would only be the white ball, but it seems to have a circular very fine structure in its center. Also, a dust particle would have to be very close to the lens (less than a cm I would say) to be this big. How could an object that close be in focus enough to show such a clear shape and be lit by the flashlight (which is embedded in the case of the camera and about 2 cm away from the lens: http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/189780-sonytx7_slide.jpg Dont get me wrong. I sure don`t want to insist on a paranormal explanation here, but also don`t think the scientific explanation can be that simple. The image sensor is a backlit CMOS btw. http://www.alphamountworld.com/photography-news/sonys-back-illuminated-cmos-sensor I wonder if something rarely goes wrong at the surface level of the sensor (high energy particle impact?) could it create such large (many hundred pixel) effect? -Bernd

Wait a moment... For 100$ you are not getting the full development kit. This is just the dev system to write managed code. To develop a retail game or even a professional arcade title, devkits are MUCH more expensive last time I checked.

Nice point in general, but worthless without estimating the chances of finding these probes. A 100 million year old probe would not necessarily be easy to find even if it wants to be found and landed on earth.