NASA’s terrifying Halloween posters are a real scream

You’d be forgiven if you think the 2020 storyline was straight out of a horror movie – and we haven’t reached Halloween yet. To celebrate the scariest day of the year this Saturday, NASA has revealed a series of horror-inspired posters depicting authentic interstellar phenomena. And instead of a trick, these are a real treat.

The designs, which could easily pass for real vintage movie posters, include a dead galaxy, a gamma-ray burst, and everyone’s favorite dark matter. Like all the best print ads, these designs are multifaceted – not only are they great fun, but they’re delightfully educational too.

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Along with each illustrated poster is a description of the terrifying phenomenon it represents. The galactic graveyard, for example, is a galaxy that “mysteriously stopped creating stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang” and is now filled with decaying stars, while Dark Matter is described as “an intricate web that forms the skeleton of our universe “. Because what could be scarier than a giant spider web in space?

“One of the things I really like about these posters is that if you spend some time studying the art and then maybe learn a little more about each of these topics, you will see that the artists have thought a lot about the choices they make. they did it to highlight the science, ”says Jason Rhodes, an astrophysicist who consulted the project, in a blog post on the NASA website.