Humans can see faces in pretty much everything, like power outlets, or car headlights, or two circles and a line. This delightful quirk is called pareidolia, and this also applies when we look up into the cosmos.
You may be surprised to learn that the image above isn't actually a giant spooky head floating in space, but two galaxies undergoing the process of merging. The picture was released by the Hubble Space Telescope team in time to celebrate Halloween.
The system is called Arp-Madore 2026-424; located around 704 million light-years away, its sports an unusual head-shaped appearance because of the turbulent effects of two galaxies colliding.
More details about this galaxy over at Science Alert.
(Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin/University of Washington)
(Rick and Morty Episode
with the giant head)