The Space Face

Pareidolia is a mental habit that causes people to detect patterns in seemingly random configurations; typically, it causes them to imagine faces. This June 2019 image, provided by none other than the Hubble Telescope, wouldn't require particularly sophisticated vision to reveal a truly alien face. That makes me think of a picture that might appear at the conclusion of a new Men in Black movie to demonstrate how an alien being's presence is woven throughout the cosmos.

Even if we are unsure if there is a creature that uncannily coincidentally resembles this visage, the fact itself is rather astounding. Despite being around 700 lightyears away from Earth, this is the collision of two galaxies, especially the Arp-Madore 2026-424 System, and it has been known about it since 1987. New stars that are being traded during the collision are what give the "face" its blue outline. As we've seen in past lists, the estimated duration of such a merger of galaxies is 100 million years, which is extremely brief in cosmic terms.