Exploring the Strangest and Most Mysterious Finds in the Universe

9. Churyumov-Gerasimenko/Comet 67P

Found Year: 1969 Kum Ivanovych Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko are the ones who discovered it. Where: Cheryumov–Gerasimenko/Comet 67P The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a member of the Jupiter family and originated in the Kupier-belt. The comet was discovered for the first time in 1969 by Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko and Klim Ivanovych Churyumov, two Soviet astronomers who both gave the comet their names.

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Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet 67P ©Shutterstock/Elenarts During Rosetta's exploration of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, thrilling events transpired, starting from the spacecraft's 2014 awakening from hibernation and its attempt to approach the comet's oval-shaped surface until its final collision with the surface in 2016.

10. Himiko

Found Year: 2009. Masami Ouchi found it. Where: Himiko The constellation Cetus, located around 12.9 billion years away from Earth, is home to the well-known Lyman-alpha blob that Masami Ouchi of the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, California named after the Japanese shaman queen Himiko in the third century. The Milky Way is half the size of Himiko.

Himiko via NASA, JPL-Caltech, STScI, NAOJ, Subaru, and Wikimedia Commons The fact that Himiko is the oldest known Lyman-alpha blob ever found in history and represents the by-now-defined primordial Lyman-alpha blob is what makes it so fascinating and unique.