Checking any ephemeris program will tell you which planets are near the Sun. The debris may be dust or spacecraft insulation which has flaked off. Of interest to lots of astronomers, but mostly just noise for us. We see lots of them. The cosmic rays can show up as points or as streaks.
Stars are visible in every single image.
In normal operations, they are seen to move left to right. Stars are easy to spot when images are viewed as a sequence or movie. In this image, examples of stars have been circled while ellipses are drawn around some examples of cosmic rays. Use this form to report a new comet. All fields below must be filled out.