NASA’s Hubble space telescope has discovered this haunting specter with glowing eyes glaring at us from deep space for Halloween.
Space.com explains that the halloween visitor is. The piercing “eyes” of this creepy space face are two distant galaxies in the middle of a head-on collision. A ring of young blue stars contours the shape of the eerie face. The dense clumps of stars have come together to form its nose and mouth.
This galaxy merger is known as Arp-Madore 2026-424. The designation combines the names of the two astronomers that first documented it. Arp-Madore 2026-424 is about 704 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Microscopium.
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