5 Strange structures in the universe | Unbelievable Cosmic Structures | Strange structures Part-1

The universe consists of billions of galaxies, stars, planets, nebulae, etc., In which, some of the celestial objects resemble like structures on Earth and related to life. Let’s look at some of the strange structures in the universe.

Cydonia (Mars):

Cydonia is a place on Mars, located between the planet’s northern hemisphere in heavy cratered region. This region attracted the scientists as well as humankind because of its features. Cydonia consists of highlands, hills and valleys (Evidences). The structures in Cydonia looks very strange when compared to other regions on Mars, in which one of the hill resembles as an Egypt pyramid and another one as human face. The human face is named as “Face on Mars”. This features in Cydonia attracted the scientists as well as common people.

Cydonia_region
Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum),CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Face_on_Mars
Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona

The Face on Mars is located halfway between the Arandas Crater and Bamberg Crater. Cydonia was first captured by Viking 1 and 2 orbiters. They captured several images of Cydonia in detail. On 25 July 1976, Viking 1 captured one of the suspicious image ever taken by us on Mars named as “Face on Mars”. Later, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA’s Mars Express probe made observations on Cydonia in detail. So, Cydonia facial became popular and lead to the speculations in religions, civilizations, Extra-terrestrial life, Goddess, cultures etc., and Cydonia also have structures like city, wall, spoon etc., so people shown interest to know about this place on Mars and research still continuous.

Helix Nebula:

Helix_Nebula
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz.

Helix nebula is also known as NGC 7293, is a planetary nebula located at a distance of 655 light years away from the Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. Helix Nebula is similar to Cat’s Eye Nebula and Ring Nebula. It resembles as the Eye. So, it is referred as the “Eye of God” in pop culture.

PSR B1059-58:

PSR_B1509-58
Image credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/P. Slane et al. - NASA

PSR B1059-58 is a Neutron star/Pulsar, located at a distance of 17,000 light years away in the constellation of Circinus. It was discovered in 1982 by Einstein X-Ray observatory. PSR B1059-58 sits in a nebula that expands about 150 light years and it spins at a rate of 7 times per second, releasing the huge amounts of energy. When it is observed in X-Ray vision, it resembles like a hand, so it is referred as “Hand of God”.

2015 TB145:

2015_TB145
Image credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NSF

2015 TB145 is one of the Asteroid in Apollo group, which is near earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid. It was discovered in 10 October 2015 by Pan-STARRS. It resembles like a "skull", so it is also known as “Halloween asteroid”. 2015 TB145 comes closer to the Earth (0.4 million kilometres) for every 4 to 8 years. On November 2018, it made a flyby (last).

Smith’s cloud:

Smith's_Cloud
Image credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Smith’s cloud is an interstellar cloud, composed of huge amounts of hydrogen and sulphur gases. As it contains huge amounts of gases, it can produce more than 0.2 billion stars. It is located at a distance of 15,000 light years away form our solar system in Aquila constellation. It is approaching our Milky Way galaxy at high Velocity and will collide & merge with our galaxy in several million years at Perseus arm. From estimations made by scientists, this collision will not affect our solar system.

Share your ideas and thoughts in comment section below.

For more information click here and for updates please follow my site, 

Thank you.