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October’s Spooky Space Pictures

OCT 31, 2019
Quiver at the sight of skeletal galaxies, stellar pumpkins and ghostly interstellar visitors.
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The Southern Lights, as captured by an astronaut on the International Space Station, spread an ethereal green hue across our atmosphere.

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(Inside Science) -- This October, even the stars seem haunted with mysterious stellar phenomena. The Hubble Space telescope imaged a skull-shaped galaxy collision and a pale, blue visitor from outside our solar system. We also feature stellar pretzels and pumpkins among our weird and wonderful pictures this month.

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NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington) )

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