New NASA posters share galactic horrors for Halloween

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 1042 GMT (1842 HKT) October 30, 2020

NASA's latest additions to their Galaxy of Horrors poster collection have released just in time for Halloween. They feature a deadly gamma ray burst, a dead galaxy and mysterious dark matter.
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NASA's latest additions to their Galaxy of Horrors poster collection have released just in time for Halloween. They feature a deadly gamma ray burst, a dead galaxy and mysterious dark matter.
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NASA has shared this "flares of fury poster" after the discovery of AU Mic b, an exoplanet less than 32 light years from Earth. Because the star is young and active, it lashes its nearby planet with radiation.
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NASA has shared this "flares of fury poster" after the discovery of AU Mic b, an exoplanet less than 32 light years from Earth. Because the star is young and active, it lashes its nearby planet with radiation.
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Three zombie worlds orbit the core of an exploded star that lashes out with radiating pulses in a new NASA poster.
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Three zombie worlds orbit the core of an exploded star that lashes out with radiating pulses in a new NASA poster.
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Rain made of glass and screaming winds seven times the speed of sound may warn travelers away in a new poster from NASA.
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Rain made of glass and screaming winds seven times the speed of sound may warn travelers away in a new poster from NASA.
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The Studio at JPL designed retro interplanetary travel posters featuring our solar system and exoplanets. Once every 175 years Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune align. NASA's <a href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/planetary.html" target="_blank">Voyager mission</a> was designed to take advantage of this alignment in the late 1970s and the 1980s.
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The Studio at JPL designed retro interplanetary travel posters featuring our solar system and exoplanets. Once every 175 years Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune align. NASA's Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of this alignment in the late 1970s and the 1980s.
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