It’s been a great year in pictures—some more identifiable than others. Here is a retrospective of 2009′s best mystery shots. Care to take another guess?

Each image links back to the original post containing the answer.

Hint: Once you find out what it is everything makes sense. Don’t over think it. [Click to see the answer]



Doc Brown’s flux capacitor? A blinged-out religious relic from the future? A Tron 2.0 prop? [Click to see the answer]



Jellyfish attacking an undersea monster? That would be cool, but the reality is much simpler, and more beautiful. [Click to see the answer]



Ready for some mystery? The answer is… [Click to see the answer]



The engine room of the next Enterprise? A glimpse at the heart of some new particle accelerator? The lens of a new US military laser? [Click to see the answer]



While it may look a bit like Galactica’s CIC it’s probably older than you are. [Click to see the answer]



It looks like a gigantic bird hunting device but it will actually let you become one with nature rather than destroy it. [Click to see the answer]



Some kind of circuit board close up? No. A nuclear power plant’s control panel full of gauges and labels? No, that’s not it either. [Click to see the answer]



No, that’s not the moon… [Click to see the answer]



A shot from the Iron Man sequel? A costume from a 22nd-century staging of Swan Lake ? My new back tat? [Click to see the answer]



They aren’t shiny radio dishes or deadly antimatter arrays in Area 51. [Click to see the answer]



A huge version of Darth Vader’s light saber? Close, but not quite close enough. [Click to see the answer]



Is this a cosmic dover over the skies of California? Maybe the aliens are telling us to chill out. Or perhaps the Holy Ghost went to grab some In-n-Out. [Click to see the answer]



Is this the entrence to Jason Chen’s secret lair where the Gizmodo magic happens? Maybe a place to lock up anyone with the swine flu? What on Earth requires a HAL 9000 to keep guard? [Click to see the answer]



At first glance I thought this was a NASA image of some sort, maybe a solar flare. I even wondered if I could get a high-res version in turn into a poster. Then I found out what it actually is. [Click to see the answer]



Tattoo under a powerful microscope? One near some feminine naughty bits? No. [Click to see the answer]



This is a tricky one. What’s the QR Code on that flag our little Android friend is waving? [Click to see the answer]

A sequel for cult movie Tron was rumored to be in preparation for years now, and today Walt Disney Pictures has finally revealed a few tidbits of information about the reboot of the “virtual reality film”. It will simply be called Tron (and not Tron 2, Tron 2.0 or “Tr2n”) and we’ll be able to see some footage very soon.

Disney said they will show a 3D clip from the movie during the Comic-Con in San Diego on July 23. The poster above is from the first movie, which was made back in 1982 (and has aged pretty well).

This is the official synopsis for the Tron reboot:

“TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.”

Via Sci-Fi Scoop