Over The Years Scientists Have Observed Some Unusual Anomalies In Outer Space From Massive Alien Superstructures To Unsettling Faces On Mars Here Are The Top 15 Most Mysterious Space Discoveries
elst- pizarro apart from planets moons and stars the objects that are most commonly seen in our solar system are comets and asteroids the two types of objects are distinguished by their properties with comets being made up of ice and rock that release a tail of vapor when they're warmed up by the sun and asteroids consisting of rock and in effect being miniature planets while virtually every object that's been discovered has fit into one of these two classifications elst- pizarro is the exception to the in 1979 it was designated as a minor planet with a stable orbit in between those of mars and Jupiter but the more it was studied the stranger it turned out to be it's not regarded as both an asteroid and a comet since it behaves like an asteroid and is orbiting where other asteroids come from but at the same time develops a tail during certain parts of its orbit this raises further questions because it could signify the presence of water in the asteroid belt which may provide clues as to where the water on earth came from in the first place the plan currently is to launch a probe in 2028 that will be able to land on elst- pizarro five years later and if it's able to collect the right samples it could even provide a deeper understanding for how our planet and perhaps life developed
Eight Faces On Mars
in the early days of space exploration a nasa probe called Viking 1 was orbiting mars to take photos to help mission control decide on a landing spot for Viking 2. when the images came back the world was stunned to see what looked like a giant face that was almost two miles long as protruded from the ground in a region called Sedona this obviously fueled speculation that it was an ancient monument built by inhabitants of the red planet because how could something like this occur naturally those working at nasa already suspected the truth was far less exciting that this was just a Martian mesa of which there are many and that shadows just so happen to make it look like a human face they also felt that releasing the images would ignite public interest in mars which they did and the face soon became a pop icon in its own right featuring in countless books magazines and tv shows despite knowing it was just a coincidence the mesa was a top priority site for imaging when the mars global surveyor reached the planet in 1998 and again in 2001 to everyone's dismay these new higher resolution images simply showed a large landform and all signs of human features were nowhere to be seen
The Red Rectangle Nebula
first discovered
in 1973 the red rectangle nebula is a particularly unusual formation that's
around 2 000 light years away from earth it had long been known that there was
a binary star system in that region of space but it was only when it was
properly imaged that scientists realized that this was a stellar object like no
other it's a surprisingly symmetrical bipolar nebula that almost looks like a
cut gem floating in space the main star at the center is in the last stages of
life and is ejecting huge amounts of material including polycyclic hydrocarbons
and silicate-rich dust which are responsible for its red color the ridges too
suggest the star has been releasing matter and pulses which have been shifted
by interstellar winds and the closeness of the ridges towards the center implies
that the process is increasing in speed and it may not be too long until the
star finally dies what's mysterious about the red rectangle nebula though is
that most evidence that's needed to understand how it formed is hidden behind
the nebula itself so the current theories about its existence are nothing more
than an educated guess it's now being constantly watched though so if any
changes do occur scientists will be ready to analyze the new information
Peggy Saturn
the earth's moon was formed in the nascent
stages of our planet when a massive impact with another stellar object cause a
huge amount of material to detach and form into its own piece of rock but not
all moons are formed this way some are meteors that have been captured in orbit
of a planet and others simply form in place a process that had never been seen
before until 2013. near the edge of the rings around Saturn a small 1.2 mile
wide formation was spotted because it reflected a lot more light back than the
dust that surrounded it astronomers were excited to find that they'd be able to
witness a moon being formed but these hopes were dashed in 2014 when images
failed to find this new moon that had been called Peggy the following year when
the Cassini probe took images of the rings Peggy Saturn was once again seen but
this time it was a lot smaller and there was a large rock orbiting very close
to it it's thought this must mean that Peggy collided with another piece of
rock and broken too Peggy Saturn has now moved further into the rings it's
thought likely that it'll contact a lot more material with the ring itself and
potentially become two or three times the size it is now over the course of a
few decades or it'll be broken up and returned to the dust from whence it came as
the formation of a moon like this has never been documented no one's sure quite
what will happen
Magnetic Rogue Planet
planets
are formed when discs of material orbit around a star and coalesce but it's
always been a mystery what happens to them when a star dies or whether it's
possible for one to form outside of a solar system so-called rogue planets have
long been a top target for researchers but the fact that if they exist would be
in the deep recesses of space without any light sources it's almost impossible
to actively search for them in 2017 though astronomers announced the first such
discovery a planet called simp0136 it's a brown dwarf so it's somewhere between
a planet like we normally think of them and a star and it's thought to be
around 12 times the size of Jupiter thought to have originated in a nearby group
of stars but there's one thing that's particularly stood out about this discovery
researchers noticed that it produced its own auroras similar to the ones that
we see on earth which meant that it must have its own magnetic field wasn't
known for sure whether this was possible especially for an object that had been
adrift for so long but the mechanisms behind its occurrence are still not
understood
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