This Was The Beginning.

John Berkey cover art for The Best of Frederik Pohl, 1975.

John Berkey cover art for The Plain Truth, April 1978.

O_o  When we peer deep into space, we don’t expect to find something staring back at us…

This galactic ghoul, captured by our Hubble Space Telescope, is actually a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies. Each “eye” is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another. The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth.

Although galaxy collisions are common most of them are not head-on smashups like this Arp-Madore system. Get spooked & find out what lies inside this ghostly apparition, here. 

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Sci-fi art by Isaac Hannaford.

Cosmic Debris.

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TDS “Paladin” - Fractured Space - Hans Palm

Rendezvous of Apollo command and lunar modules over the Moon, illustrated by Robert McCall.

Space welder - B S

“ Journey To The Tulip Nebula “ // deepskypix

Music:  Woodsman - dream river.

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