NASA shares spooky space photographs without a time to spare for Halloween
Pictures shared by NASA this week exhibit the spooky wonders of space only in front of the most absurd day of the year: Halloween.
The office presented two pictures on Twitter: one of a divine wonder giving off an impression of being a galactic ghoul, and one of the sun looking like a consuming jack-o'- light.
The "ghostly apparition," as NASA depicted it Tuesday on Twitter, was really a picture of two galaxies colliding, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in June.
Each 'eye' is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another," NASA clarified on its site. "The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth."
The head-on crash will give the galaxies a ring structure for around 100 million years, which is an uncommon inf...