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When we peer deep into space,
we don't expect to find something staring back at us...⁣
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This galactic ghoul,
captured by our Hubble Space Telescope,
is actually a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies.
Each "eye"
is the bright core of a galaxy,
one of which slammed into another.
The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars.
Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth.
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Although galaxy collisions are common most of them are not head-on smashups like this Arp-Madore system.
Get spooked and find out what lies inside this ghostly apparition from the link in our bio.
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⁣ #Halloween #Spooky #Space #Galaxies #NASA #FacesInPlaces

No,
that’s not a fiery jack-o’-lantern 🔥🎃.
It’s the Sun!
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Our Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this ultraviolet image in October 2014,
showing active regions on our home star.
The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy.
They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere,
the corona.
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Image Credit:
NASA/SDO⁣
⁣ #nasa #space #halloween19 #halloween #pumpkin

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Explorer,
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photographer,
⛰️
geologist,
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chemist...
Mars Curiosity does it all!⁣
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The rover captured images on Oct.
11 for this celebratory #selfie,
after its second-ever "wet chemistry"
experiment using solvents to help its portable laboratory detect certain carbon-based molecules important to the formation of life,
called organic compounds.
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About 984 feet (300 meters)
behind the rover is Vera Rubin Ridge,
which Curiosity departed nearly a year ago.
Beyond the ridge,
you can see the floor of Gale Crater and the crater's northern rim.
Curiosity has been ascending Mount Sharp,
a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall)
mountain inside the crater.⁣
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The individual images in this selfie were taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI),
a camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm.
The images are stitched together into a panorama;
the robotic arm isn't visible in the parts of the images used in the composite.⁣
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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS⁣
⁣ #mars #rover #solarsystem #nasa #chemistry #robots