On October 2nd, NASA published a photograph of the heavens, which had a white blob on it. The photograph did not appear in the next frame. SOHO, the joint European Space Agency/NASA solar observatory, routinely records and explains, or apologises for, odd-looking marks when energy particles, bright planets, detector defects and image-processing glitches hit their sensitive lenses, creating surprisingly artificial-looking shapes.
Undeterred by this, Scott C. Waring, (I assume to distinguish him from Scott A Waring),