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List of pareidolia in astronomy, biology, and geology[edit]

Astronomy[edit]

Alligator (open star cluster NGC 1981, also known as the Crocodile)
Angelfish Nebula
Atoms for Peace Galaxy
Banana Nebula
Bear Paw Galaxy (also known as the Bear Claw Galaxy)
Blue Horsehead Nebula
Boogeyman Nebula (Lynds Dark Nebula 1622 in Orion)
Bow-Tie Nebula
Butterfly Galaxies (also known as the Siamese Twins)
Calabash Nebula (also known as the Rotten Egg Nebula)
California Nebula (also known as the Dragon Nebula)
Caterpillar Nebula (dark cloud Barnard 168 in Cygnus)
Cat's Eye Nebula
Cat's Paw Nebula (also known as the Bear Claw Nebula)
Celestial Snow Angel (emission nebula Sharpless-2-106 in Cygnus)
Cheerio Nebula (also known as the Ghostly Cheerio)
Cigar Galaxy (also known as the Dove Galaxy)
Coalsack Nebula
Coathanger (open star cluster Collinder 399 in Vulpecula, which looks like a coathanger)
Condor Galaxy
Cooling Tower (open star cluster Messier 29 in Cygnus)
Crab Nebula
Dark Doodad Nebula
Dark Horse Nebula (also known as the Great Dark Horse, Prancing Horse)
Defiant Finger, within the Carina Nebula
Dolphin-Head Nebula
Dragonfish Nebula
Dragons of Ara (two dark images or silhouettes of dragon-like creatures in the NGC 6188 complex, in the constellation Ara)
Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, Diabolo Nebula, Double Headed Shot)
Eagle Nebula (also known as the Star Queen Nebula)
Eskimo Nebula (also known as the Clown-Faced Nebula, Lion Nebula)
Fetus Nebula
Gabriela Mistral Nebula
Ghost Head Nebula
Ghost Nebula
Glowing Eye Nebula (also known as the Dandelion Puffball Nebula)
Guitar (nebula)
Halloween Cat (open star cluster NGC 225 in Cassiopeia)
Hamburger Galaxy
Hand of God (pulsar PSR B1509−58 in Circinus)
Headphone Nebula
Heart Nebula (also known as the Running Dog Nebula)
Homunculus Nebula (Little Man Nebula)
Horsehead Nebula
Iris Nebula
Jellyfish Nebula
Jesus Christ Nebula (also known as the Cone Nebula)
Jewel Bug Nebula (also known as the Gummy Bear Nebula)
Keyhole Nebula, within the Carina Nebula
Lemon Slice Nebula
Little Ghost Nebula
Lizard (dark cloud Barnard 138 in Aquila)
Lobster Nebula (also known as the War-and-Peace Nebula)
Meathook Galaxy (also known as the Cobra-and-Mouse)
Metronome (open star cluster Dolidze 17 in Orion)
Mice Galaxies
Monkey Head Nebula (also known as the Ape Man Nebula)
Muscle Man Cluster (open star cluster Stock 2 in Cassiopeia)
North America Nebula
Owl Cluster (also known as the Dragonfly Cluster, E.T. Cluster, Kachina Doll Cluster)
Owl Nebula
Oyster Nebula
Pacman Nebula
Parrot's Head Nebula (dark cloud Barnard 87 in Sagittarius)
Pelican Nebula
Pencil Nebula
Phantom Streak Nebula
Pincushion Cluster (also known as the Football Cluster, Black Arrow Cluster, Wishing Well Cluster, Double Arrowhead)
Pistol Nebula
Porpoise galaxy (also known as the Penguin-with-Egg Galaxy)
Prawn Nebula
Red Spider Nebula
Retina Nebula
Running Chicken Nebula
Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977 in Orion)
Sailboat (open star cluster Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili 7 in Hercules)
Seagull Nebula
Seahorse Nebula
Skull and Crossbones Nebula (also known as the Mandrill)
Skull Nebula
Sombrero Galaxy (also known as the Darklane Galaxy)
Sprinter (also known as the Running Man Cluster)
Starfish Galaxy
Statue of Liberty Nebula
Swan Nebula (also known as the Horseshoe Nebula, Lobster Nebula, Omega Nebula, Checkmark Nebula)
Tarantula Nebula
Thirty Seven Cluster, 37 Cluster (also known as the LE Cluster)
Thor's Helmet (also known as the Duck Nebula)
Toby Jug Nebula
Tribble Nebulae
Tulip Nebula
Whale Galaxy (also known as the Herring Galaxy)
Witch Head Nebula
Wizard Nebula

Sources of many of the above mentioned names:

Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2: Double Stars, Variable Stars, and Nonstellar Objects (Edited by Alan Hirshfeld and Roger W. Sinnott, 1985); pages xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, xlix, and l: GLOSSARY OF SELECTED ASTRONOMICAL NAMES.
Deep-Sky Name Index 2000.0 (Hugh C. Maddocks, Foxon-Maddocks Associates, 1991), a derivate of Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2.

Biology[edit]

Heikegani, a species of crab native to Japan with shells interpreted to be the face of angry samurai

Geology[edit]

Badlands Guardian, a geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat in the southeast corner of Alberta, Canada.
Face Mountain (formerly Parsons Peak, Alaska)
Face Rock State Scenic Viewpoint, a state park in Oregon named for a rock that resembles the face of a human looking towards the sky
Makapansgat pebble, a pebble with natural chipping and wear patterns that make it look like a crude rendition of a human face
Old Man of the Mountain, a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States
Pedra da Gávea, a monolithic mountain with stylized human face in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Runamo, a cracked dolerite dike in Sweden
Sleeping Giant (Ontario)
Turtle Rock, Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, Mongolia

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