20 most bizarre objects you can find in the cosmos

1. The Death Star

Seriously, Saturn's orbit rotates real "Death Star." Mimas, a small moon of Saturn, looks like a hair's breadth as the most destructive weapon of Darth Vader. Is that the surface it is not smooth, and covered with craters. And yet Mimas much larger Imperial battle station.

The largest crater Herschel satellite and gives a distinctive look. Its diameter - 135 km, and almost one third the diameter of Mimas. And this picture was taken the spacecraft "Cassini" in 2017, before you plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn.

2. witch head

What do you see when you look at this image, made using the space telescope "Hubble" in mid-2015? Looks like a catty-old woman witch profile with protruding pointed chin and nose, mouth open, sunken eyes and high forehead wrinkled. In fact, that's why NASA It called the Witch Head Nebula.

3. Fossilized fish on Mars

In 2016 Curiosity rover sent back to Earth an unusual photo. Among the rocky debris of Martian rock has yielded big fish with razdvoonnym tail. And when you consider that previously, on the assumptions of scientists, in the northern hemisphere of Mars was a real ocean water ...

True, NASA was quick to disappoint adherents of the theory of extraterrestrial paleozhizni. Upon closer inspection, "fish" turned out to be an ordinary stone. In general, "all the best and thanks for the fish."

4. Hallowe'en lamp

Looks ominous, is not it? It is our sun, photographed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in October 2014. Reminds Hallowe'en Jack lamp, well, the one who made of pumpkin.

The active regions of star Crown randomly made two evil eyes, nose and stretched into a grin baggy mouth. The biggest Hallowe'en pumpkin in our solar system.

5. Jupiter's face

Flying around Jupiter in 2017, Juno space probe took this photo of the gas giant. On it with proper imagination can be considered the "face" of Jupiter with two bulging eyes and a small, puzzled parted lips. To paraphrase Nietzsche, while looking at Jupiter Juno, Jupiter, too, looks at Juno. "Eyes" and "mouth" - this is a huge vortex, albeit not as monstrous as the Great Red Spot, but also solid.

6. Space Cyclops

If what you have just seen, can be called the face of Jupiter... then it means that the gas giant has eye and neck. At least one. In this image can be seen as the Great Red Spot - a huge storm in Jupiter's atmosphere - falls the shadow of Ganymede, the largest satellite giant. All together it looks like a huge cyclops eye, looking out into space.

7. Spoon on Mars

Another picture with Curiosity, testifying to the fact that once there was life, and even had an advanced civilization on Mars! Okay, in fact it is just a stone, slightly reminiscent of a regular table spoon. The rover took this picture in 2016.

8. space potato

Take a look at this thing. It looks like a potato, floating in the darkness, is not it? Nevertheless, it will not put a pot. This Prometheus - the moon of Saturn. This small celestial body (a length of 148 km) elongated shape and cratered surface, which gives Prometheus similarity with known roots. The picture was taken probe "Cassini" in 2015.

9. Spherical horse in vacuo

Space nebula of enormous size, located at a distance of 1500 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, called Horsehead. And it is indeed reminiscent of a horse's head. Or Komodo dragon - it all depends on your imagination. snapshot Hawaiian observatory made by NASA in 2015.

10. Dumpling on Saturn's orbit

This dumpling orbiting the gas giant. This Ban, moon of Saturn, photographed by spacecraft "Cassini" in 2017. Its shape object bound the rings of Saturn: the dust from which they are composed, deposited on its sides, and creates a distinctive ridges. Alas, the giant dumpling inedible.

11. Hand of the Lord

The universe extends his hand, welcoming humanity. Or warning worthless fellows, dared to look into its depths. The picture was taken space telescope "Chandra" in 2009. this hand - a monstrous energy flow ejected rotating neutron star.

12. Eye in Space

Saturn likes to collect in its orbit all sorts of interesting things. Dumpling, potato, that eye is now. It Tethys, moon of Saturn with a huge crater, thanks to which it resembles an eyeball.

This crater called Odysseus, and at its center is located the mountain of Corfu. NASA received this photograph from the probe "Cassini" in early 2017.

13. Orange peel and snail

What is it to you? Probably, black-and-white image of orange peel with a magnifying glass? No, this is a huge glacial valley on the surface Pluto. And it slowly creeps a dark object resembling a snail shell and a pair of small horns. Scientists suggest that this is a drifting iceberg floating in the frozen nitrogen. Photo sent by the device NASA «New Horizons" in 2016.

14. Han Solo in carbonite

Mercury has long been a very uncharted planet, but in 2011 he got to the ever-present NASA with its Messenger probe. What was a surprise to scientists when they found on the surface of the hot planet a human figure, fusing into stone. Right Han Solo is frozen in carbonite. Though, most likely, it's just a stream of lava in Karolis pool.

15. Mite from Venus

Venus is really a hellish place. There are incredibly thick atmosphere, creating pressure 92 times larger than the Earth. Here terribly hot - an average of 462 degrees Celsius. Then carbon dioxide instead of air and clouds of sulfuric acid.

But the worse thing is that despite all these minor difficulties on Venus dwells huge tick. Although, to be honest, it really is just a big volcano, Who was photographed with the "Magellan" orbit space probe in 1989.

16. Mercurial Mickey Mouse

Disney reached Mercury. And engraved on the surface of a portrait of the most recognizable cartoon character. At least, it looks like it. Better advertising and come up with is impossible. Well, if we discard the jokes aside, it's just a few craters, photographed by NASA's Messenger probe in 2012.

17. space brains

In the film, Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers" evil arachnids commanded a huge spider-brain. And he seems to exist in reality. Its diameter - 0,6 km. Just look at these crinkles and imagine what may reflect the cosmic mind. Captive of mankind, of course!

However, panic early. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a huge brain crater on the Martian surface, filled with ice and sand, which are formed in a tortuous pattern. Taken by the probe Mars Global Surveyor in 2004.

18. Pluto's heart

The probe is "New Horizons" Pluto took this photo at close range in 2015. Look closely and you'll see that most of the planet takes... heart.

However, Pluto's heart is cold. This enormous ice plain Tombo these areas, surrounded by two ridges and coated crystal with nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane ice.

19. Martian parasites

NASA have long tried to hide this fact, but now that this picture utok to the network, to deny the truth is meaningless. Mars is inhabited by huge black leeches that are sure to create more of a threat in the future the colonists…

Okay, I'm just trying to joke. This is actually a huge sand dunes that cover Proctor crater in the southern highlands of Mars. No leeches - a dark sand. This photo was taken with the camera HiRISE the Mars Reconnaissance satellites in 2007.

20. Van Gogh canvas

What a crazy artist created this exciting picture? May be, van Gogh I decided to write another version of his famous "Star Night"? Not. This is a photo of Jupiter's atmosphere, made Juno probe in 2017.

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system - a gas giant, and he has no solid surface. And what you see - the clouds and whirlwinds of hydrogen and helium, are constantly swirling in its atmosphere.