NASA releases eerie space photos showing 'evil eye', giant skull and Sun with creepy smile to celebrate Halloween

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is celebrating Halloween by sharing some of the weirdest and creepiest pictures from throughout the cosmos. The newest released collection features a large skull, an enigmatic eye looking out into space and a Sun with a smile on its face much like a Halloween pumpkin. The American space agency published pictures before Halloween, and one of the most dramatic photographs is a picture of the Sun looking like a jack-o'-lantern with two bright eyes and a crooked smile. The image was actually taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in October 2014, during a time when the Sun's magnetic activity had produced unusually bright areas in the Sun's atmosphere. The other image depicts a large formation of turquoise-green colour that looks like a vast eye, known as the Hourglass Nebula or MyCn 18 about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows a structure that is formed by the gas that has been ejected from a dying star. NASA also included a creepy picture of the Perseus galaxy cluster, in which two gigantic dark holes are surrounded by glowing X-rays that look like eyes in a skull. Strong activity around the massive black hole in the centre of the cluster created the cavities. Other pictures show an odd eye-like structure around the star Fomalhaut, and the famous Face on Mars, which can be seen as a human face when viewed under certain lighting conditions.