Greetings from the Critique Club!
Like most of your commenters, I found myself wondering wtf this could be. Your descrip says the planet was created using a washer and chicken grease...interesting choice of matter to choose to build a planet with! Mostly I think that the very abstract nature of this shot, and the big blob of grease, were just a little too off-putting to the voters and most people in general. The colours are not appealing, there is no attempt at composition or any kind of lighting. This looks like a snapshot and the score reflects that. Yes, there are indeed some insidious individuals here who pursue their own vision, is  posthumous and  tnun...but they know the basics upon which to build their visions. And both have won ribbons here.
To be perfectly honest, you have a lot to learn about the very basics before you can expect your scores to improve. I'm guessing this was shot on Auto (aka green camera) mode, meaning that the camera made all the choices for ISO, shutter speed and aperture. If you plan to become any kind of photographer, you MUST learn your settings. No two ways about it. There are masses of excellent books out there and tutorials of all kinds on the Internet, so if you really want to be serious, start studying. Turn your camera's knob to the very skeery M (for manual - meaning YOU make all the choices for ISO, aperture and shutter speed), buy a cheap tripod, and get cracking.
More importantly, if you really want to do well here, start with the images on the last page and look at the images that beat you in this challenge, and see if you can start to see why they do progressively better and better until you're on the front page. By then you should be able to see what images won, and why.
Sorry that this has had to be a bit hardcore, but that's how it is here. This is a very tough site to do well on. Many DPCers are serious hobbyists at the very least and more than a few are working pros.
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