Comments on: A cosmic Halloween gallery: things that go BOO in the night

By: Chuck Messer

Chuck Messer — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:04:57 +0000

That Flaming Skull of Perseus looks familiar. I wonder if they cast him for the stargate scene in 2001?

Chuck

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By: sam

sam — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:23:19 +0000

Check out this pic of the California Nebula that was on apod a few days ago. The two blue stars are the eyes then there’s a nose and jagged teeth
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1110/mbz_2011-09_Clouds_Of_Perseus.jpg

By: CR

CR — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:02:24 +0000

Not THAT T’Pau, gang, sorry. I meant the human group who got their name from the Vulcan.
(I forgot to mention yesterday that it was Phil’s photo title “Give a little bit of heart and skull” that kicked the song into my head. Maybe now the reference I made will make more sense to anyone remotely familiar with late 1980′s/early 1990′s pop music.)

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By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:36:45 +0000

@25 Chris: Hahaha. No, you are certainly not. I had the exact same thought.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:10:59 +0000

@23 CR
Am I the only one who thought, “Oh cool a Vulcan song” only to be disappointed that T’Pau is a human group?

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:47:20 +0000

The “black hole skull” and NGC 2467 are my favorites. That last one in particular reminds me of “The Mote in God’s Eye” by Jerry Pournelle, about a a journey to a star that forms one eye in a nebulous (literally) “face” visible from a human colony.

By: CR

CR — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:24:30 +0000

Now I’ve got that old T’Pau song “Heart and Soul” stuck in my head. (I can think if worse things, actually…)
That volcano radar image was by far the creepiest looking thing in this set… it looks like a pic of some three-dimensional sculpture or… or… GASP! an actual face! (Seriously, if I hang that on my front door Halloween, I think it might scare away trick-or-treaters.)

By: DIederick

DIederick — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:20 +0000

I think the Soul Nebula looks a lot like Nagilum, the alien that experimented on the Enterprise in the Star Trek TNG episode “Where Silence Has Lease”.

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:32:22 +0000

What? You didn’t include The Ghost of Jupiter Nebula?
Horrors!

By: Mike Oliver

Mike Oliver — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:58:31 +0000

How could you forget the giant demon that rose out of the Sun? Well, I suppose we have all tried to forget…

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000809.html

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By: Infinite123Lifer

Infinite123Lifer — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:22:27 +0000

Very ghoul post Phil! We had fun with it!

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By: Ganzy

Ganzy — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:14:07 +0000

Came across a cracking cloud pareidolia video yesterday on youtube. Check out the angry jeebus at 0:20 he’s even spitting thunderbolts at 0:50 Some of the comments would be hilarious if they weren’t so serious… It would have been great if Monkey Magic could have come scudding by on his cloud with Pigsy and Sandy, to chase that nasty cloud demon away!!

Anyone remember Monkey Magic from the 70′s??

A classic to blow away the chase scene in ‘Bullit’ anyday..

By: Ganzy

Ganzy — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:35:41 +0000

Phil your missing one of the latest and greatest in your cosmic galaxy of horrors IMO. Surely you can see the demonic Chihuahua rising out of Orions fiery depths in yesterdays image post??

Check this out too! On a second look just to the lower left of the devil dogs snout, there is a face that bares a remarkable resemblance to you!!… If you screw your eyes up a little bit

@2 GK4: Yes definiately a profile of Lincoln.

By: Composer99

Composer99 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:58:45 +0000

NCG 2467 is really telling you to obey its dog. /Zoolander reference

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:49:04 +0000

And the asteroid 21 Lutetia is dressed as George Washington for a Halloween party. Here is a link to the article and photo of 21 Lutetia:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/47660

ASTEROIDOLIA!

By: John Sandlin

John Sandlin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:14:14 +0000

@7 Robby, try typing while you’re still looking at the image. If you look away, your memory of it is wiped.

jbs

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:11:10 +0000

@7 Robby
Isn’t nothing the scariest thing of all?

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:42:23 +0000

That’s one scary Bad Universe out there!

By: Robby

Robby — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:31:35 +0000

Hey Phil,

Your last image is missing from this gallery. There’s nothing there.

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:57:41 +0000

Actually, if you take the “Running Ghost” image and turn it 90 degrees to the left, it looks remarkably like one of the character icons from the old Dragonlance video game (the SSI version from the early 90s).