Hubble Telescope's Creepiest Images

 

space the final frontier  if sci-fi movies have taught us anything  it's that space  is super creepy but just in case you  missed that memo  we've got photos from the famous hubble  telescope to prove just how creepy  it is ghoulish apparitions  ghostly figures gazing eyes you might  want to watch this one with the lights  on  welcome to fact nominal today we're  getting spooky  with creepiest space photos ever taken  by the hubble telescope so let's jump  right in space face  trick or treat just in time for  halloween 2019  nasa released this incredible picture of  what appears to be the face of a titan  from final space imagine looking out to  space  and seeing this thing staring back at  you with an alien-like round head  glowing eyes and gaping mouth that looks  like it's screeching  this looks like one terrifying space  demon in reality  it's something almost as cool the  collision  of two galaxies 704 million light years  away  the two piercing eyes are each the core  of a galaxy  the face outline is made up of young  blue stars  while other clumps of stars form the  nose and mouth features  galaxies don't always collide in such a  spectacular and violent way as the  arp madore 2026  424 system and the spectre which arose  from it  will only appear this way for a short  time  well relatively short around 100  million years eventually they'll merge  completely  ghost nebula who you gonna call this  creepy apparition known as the ghost  of cassiopeia might look like something  out of an 80s movie  but the ic-63 nebula appears so ghostly  because of the nearby blue giant star  gamma  cassiopeia the blue giant bombards  ic63 with ultraviolet radiation  which causes the red glow the blue color  is due to the light reflecting off the  nebula's dust  someone hasn't been doing the dusting  shores it seems gamma  cassiopeia is pretty impressive itself  it burns with the fire of 34  000 suns regardless of the science  behind it this spectacular snap of the  ghostly figure  with a long flowing veil takes  everyone's breath away  the shot was taken in august 2016.  pillars of creation the pillars of  creation  really live up to their dramatic name  these gargantuan towering columns of  cool hydrogen gas  and dust are incubators for new stars  the giant eerie figures rising into the  darkness are part of the eagle nebula  a star forming region in the  constellation serpents around  6 500 light years away the tallest is  four light years from base to tip  that's right they're so big we have to  measure them  in light years they protrude like  stalagmites from the wall  of a dark molecular cloud the pillars  are being eroded by ultraviolet light  which slowly reveals even denser  globules of gas  buried within them these globules have  been given the very serious name  evaporating gaseous globules  or eggs for short inside the eggs  are where embryonic stars are forming  hourglass eye no this isn't a sci-fi  novel cover or a 70s rock band poster  although it probably should be because  it's so cool  in 1996 the hubble telescope took a look  at the hourglass nebula  and it looked right back at them the  aptly named hourglass nebulous hourglass  shape is fascinating in itself  but the shape of an eye in the center is  extraordinary and  extra creepy the eye which  yes is staring directly into your soul  is even complete with a shiny iris and  pupil  the hourglass nebula known as mycn18  is a young nebula about 8 000 light  years away  and is actually centered around a dying  star  reflection nebula a dark figure appears  to be emerging from the clouds in this  creepy pig  from the hubble in 1999  they had just completed repairs on the  telescope in time to capture the spooky  shot of the reflection nebula  ngc 1999 people see the head  and shoulders of a human-like figure  emerging from the thick clouds  a reflection nebula is described like  fog around a street lamp  it is only visible because light from a  source within is illuminating the dust  a bright young star called v380  orionis which you can see as the  brightest spot  shining in the picture is the source  that is illuminating the dust clouds  the incredible almost jet black figure  is a dark cloud  called a bok globule named after the  astronomer  bart bach the globule is a cold  cloud of gas molecules and cosmic dust  it is so dense it blocks all light from  shining through it  i of sauron a great eye  lidless reef in flame  the resemblance between the eye of  sauron from lord of the rings and this  terrifying fiery eye  captured by the hubble telescope has us  cowering like frodo the image shows the  area around the star  formalhout astronomers use the advanced  camera's  coronagraph to block of the star's  bright glare  so that a faint planet called formal  health b  could be seen this is what causes the  dark  pupil-like circle in the middle of the  picture no matter the explanation  it makes for one creepy picture  ghost head nebula two menacing glowing  eyes stare out from the eerie  swirling green and red clouds the ghost  head nebula is part of the large magenta  cloud  and according to the hubble team the two  piercing eyes  disappointingly named a1 and a2  are glowing white-hot blobs of hydrogen  and oxygen  these hot blobs actually contain massive  stars within them  a single star in a1 in the left for the  picture  and several in the more complex a2 on  the right  the ghost head nebula is a hundred and  seventy thousand light years away from  earth  telltale heart this image is so creepy  the team named it after an edgar allan  poe story  the telltale heart the ghoulish  swirling sickly green clouds are  reminiscent of a smoking witch's  cauldron  hubble bubble toil and trouble  the image of the crab nebula shows a  dead star  in the center while the star may be dead  it won't let that stop it in the center  is the telltale heart of the star  called a neutron star it is the crushed  core  of the dead star and while it is the  same mass as the sun  it is squeezed into a super dense sphere  that is a hundred billion times stronger  than steel  and only a few miles wide  this heart is spinning 30 times a second  and producing a magnetic field that  generates  one trillion volts of energy zap  this immense activity causes wave-like  patterns that can be seen  emanating from the dead star most  clearly to the top right of the heart  ghostly castles in the sky  not much is known about the striking and  eerie image of the iras-05437 plus  2502 nebula in the taurus constellation  it is close to the central plain of our  milky way galaxy  but it hasn't been studied in detail  unlike most of hubble's usual subjects  the picture shows towering castle-like  fandoms  rising into the darkness experts aren't  sure  what the bright arc-shaped object that  is the focal point near the center of  the image is  it is thought that a high-velocity young  star from a nearby cluster traveling 124  000 miles per hour  200 000 kilometers per hour interacting  with the nebula's dust  may have caused the sharp bright  boomerang shape  either way it makes for an eerily  beautiful image of our milky way  tarantula nebula this creepy crawly  image of the tarantula nebula  might send shivers up arachnophobe  spines  the nebula formerly known as 30 doradus  gets its nickname from its spindly  spidery  filaments of gas according to the  european space agency  the spidery fingers of the tarantula  nebula are not so far away  located only 160 thousand light years  away in the large melangelic cloud the  esa  says that the tarantula nebula is one of  the largest and most  intense regions of active star formation  known to exist  anywhere in our galactic  the round blue bubble shapes in the  lower left of the image  also show the neighboring honeycomb  nebula which has baffled scientists  since its discovery in the early 1990s