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Spooky space pictures: a Halloween gallery

View a gallery of images that include a giant black widow in the Milky Way and a cosmic death ray aimed at Earth

By Maggie Mckee

28 October 2008

The Black Widow Nebula hangs above the galactic plane — The Black Widow Nebula hangs above the galactic plane
(Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E Churchwell/GLIMPSE)

To celebrate Halloween, 91av Space has assembled a gallery of scary images from space.

Part 2 of the gallery will be posted later in the week – check back if you dare.

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