Cosmic Scare: NASA Celebrates Halloween With 9 Vintage Horror Film Posters

A crop from NASA’s “Dark Energy” poster.

A crop from NASA’s “Dark Energy” poster.
Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The universe is a spooky place, crammed with zombie stars, invisible matter, and monster galaxies lurking within the silent darkness of the cosmos.

In order to pay tribute to the bizarre mysteries that encompass us, NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Office produced a set of illustrations meant to appear to be classic horror film posters. All draw inspiration from actual cosmic phenomenon like darkish matter, gamma ray bursts and exoplanets with hellish circumstances.

“One of the things I really like about these posters is that if you spend some time studying the art and then maybe go learn a little more about each of these topics, you’ll see there was a lot of thought by the artists about the choices they made to highlight the science,” Jason Rhodes, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, who consulted on the undertaking, stated in a NASA release from 2020.

Read on for such cinematic classics as Dark Matter: Something Else Is Out There and Gamma Ray Ghouls.

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