Facts on Fire

   While people are celebrating Halloween, NASA released an astonishing picture of   'Giant Space Pumpkin ' captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.  While sharing the pictures of the ' Giant Space Pumpkin ', NASA wrote, "Sorry Charlie Brown, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as the " Greater Pumpkin " . This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies that resembles a Halloween carved pumpkin. The "pumpkin's" glowing “eyes” are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes. An arm of newly forming stars give the imaginary pumpkin a wry smirk. The two galaxies, cataloged as NGC  2292 and NGC  2293, are located about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. Credits:  NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama) The pumpkin’s face consists of two Aging Red Stars , which forms the eye, ...