After kick-starting the Halloween festivities with a haunting photo of the “Ghost of Cassiopeia,” as the Inquisitr reported last week, NASA rises to the occasion once more with another celestial ...

A malevolent, screaming skull face. A witch cackling in profile. An all-seeing eye, gazing red and furious from the cosmic depths. Space can be as terrifying as it is beautiful. From nebulas — vast ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

The knee of Orion is marked by the bright star Rigel, and just off to the side is the large glowing Witch Head nebula, which really does look like a classic depiction of a hag’s face: open-mouth, ...

PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A new image from a spacecraft surveying the cosmos in infrared shows baby stars being born in a distinctively shaped nebula known as the Witch Head, NASA says. The ...

Never mind the nature of dark matter or the ultimate fate of the universe, let's address a more important question this Halloween. What's the scariest nebula in the sky? I've seen a few in the flesh ...

The Witch Head Nebula This infrared image shows the Witch Head nebula hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, taken by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The clouds ...

I know Halloween was a while back, but an image released by NASA came a bit too late for me to put up on the blog here. And while I’ve talked about this particular object before, it was taken by a ...

A mesmerising image of the Witch Head Nebula, scientifically known as IC 2118, was captured by the Al-Khatim Astronomical Observatory in Abu Dhabi. The stunning photo, taken after an intense nearly 39 ...

Pareidolia — it’s a phenomenon most of us experience at some point, but is fortunately not as nefarious as its name sounds. It simply describes the human tendency to recognize familiar patterns or ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Somewhere in the depths of the Milky Way, near the Witch Head nebula, is a pretty unremarkable ...