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The newly released NASA posters have a vintage horror film look just in time for Halloween, highlighting exoplanets in a series called the Galaxy of Horrors. The posters, created in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists and artists, are designed to inform about various exoplanets discovered outside of our galaxy. The colorful posters can be downloaded for free. …

A ghastly face with glowing eyes sparkles in space in a new image of the Hubble Space Telescope. The piercing "eyes" of this scary space face are the bright nuclei of two distant galaxies in the center of a head-collision, and they are surrounded by a mish-mash of stars from their respective galactic disks. A ring of young blue stars …

A breathtaking image, sent back from a joint European Space Agency (ESA) telescope and NASA, looking like a strange face appearing in space. The strange-looking structure is created by a bluish hue of gas and faint stars that form the face, while two sets of bright star clusters form the eyes. The "spooky face" actually consists of two galaxies on …

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released a picture of a "ghostly face" in the run-up to Halloween caused by a "titanic" collision of two massive galaxies just over 700 million light-years from Earth , The positions of the galaxies create the illusion that "a sinister pair of shining eyes are menacingly flashing in our direction," with a ring …

As it looks from @Space_Station when your best friend realizes her lifelong dream of flying into space. Caught the second stage in progress! We can not wait to welcome you aboard the Soyuz 61! pic.twitter.com/Ws7tInY58P – Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) September 25, 2019 The photo shows the smoke plumes of the first stage and another mini plume from the trajectory …

Our Milky Way, shown here in an artist's concept, has strange "waves" in its peripheral regions. New research indicates that these waves were caused by a collision with a dwarf galaxy called Antlia 2. (Credit: ESA) The Milky Way has probably collided with a recently discovered dwarf galaxy called Antlia 2 less than a billion years ago. The study was …

The Milky Way has probably collided with the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Antlia 2 less than a billion years ago. This was the result of a new study presented Wednesday at the 234th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The research, led by Sukanya Chakrabarti of the Rochester Institute of Technology, supports a prediction that she made a decade ago …

Physicists solved a decade-long puzzle by describing how fast a particle can pass through a barrier. Particles can fly through seemingly insurmountable barriers like ghosts. For decades, physicists have wondered how long this so-called quantum tunneling takes. After a three-year investigation, an international team of theoretical physicists now has an answer. According to a new study, they measured a tunneling …

An ancient "untouched" Mayan ritual cave was discovered by chance by archaeologists in Mexico who were actually looking for a holy well. The cave is said to have been sealed for over 1,000 years and contains more than 150 ritual objects AP: Associated Press The cave was sealed for over 1,000 years. The ancient Mayan empire was in Central and …

Bright spots of light near a newborn star. Image: ESA / Hubble / NASA, K. Stapelfeldt By Mark Kaufman 2019-02-17 16:19: 53 UTC When a star is born, a chaotic light show follows. NASA's long-lived Hubble Space Telescope has captured living bright lumps moving through the cosmos about 1,000 light years away from Earth. The Space Agency called these objects …