NASA celebrates Halloween with its spookiest photos of the universe, including a jack-o'-lantern sun and an evil eye nebula

Published: 21:11 EDT, 30 October 2026 | Updated: 21:48 EDT, 30 October 2026 Nasa is celebrating Halloween this year by releasing its spookiest photos of the universe.The space agency revealed several astral oddities on Wednesday ahead of October 31. Skull shapes and ghostly eyes are among a gallery of Halloween-themed eerie space sightings.One picture captured the Sun appearing like a giant jack-o'-lantern – with its active regions forming what looks like a carved pumpkin. Another pictures an evil eye. The turquoise-green eye-shaped circle is a young planetary nebula that is around 8,000 light years awayShowcasing four eye-like observations, the agency wrote: 'Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched? 'Even though all of these cosmic objects are millions of light-years away, they can still send shivers down our spines when we find them staring back at us.' Active regions on the Sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern pumpkin's face on A haunting image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory reveals the Perseus Cluster of Galaxies in x-rays. NASA say describes it as 'Like eyes in a skull, two dark bubbles flank a bright central source of x-ray emission'. Looking like a spectral eye, this is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) An 'eerie' new mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation was revealed in time for Halloween An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals the vibrant green and red Ghost Head Nebula NASA's Viking 1 Orbiter spacecraft photographed this region, which resembles a face, in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976