A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image of the Witch Head nebula from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, released on Halloween (Oct. 31, 2013).

A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image of the Witch Head nebula from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, released Thursday on Halloween.

It is the witch head nebula!'" WISE was recently spurred back to action after a two-year hiatus. Starting next year, it will be used to locate near-Earth asteroids; from 2010-2011, it scanned the ...

"The witch is watching Orion's bright star, Rigel which is a sign by the species that made it that they came from the location she looks at. "Even NASA could not ignore the nebula shaped like a face.

Witch head nebula. (Image credit: NASA/STScI Digitized Sky Survey/Noel Carboni) The Witch Head Nebula, formally known as IC 2118, is located in the constellation Orion about 900 light-years from ...

A telescope in Chile has snapped a stunning new image of a speedy nebula that is named after a writing tool, but has a closer resemblance to a witch's broom, scientists say.

Just in time for Halloween, researchers at JPL have stumbled across a nebula that looks like a warty wicked witch, seen in profile. The wicked witch head is actually a massive cloud of gas ...

I guess I’m running a theme this week because the Witch Head is another reflection nebula. This one, however, is on a whole new scale: While M78 spans only 8′, IC 2118 stretches 1.5°.

A WISE and Dusty Witch Head. By Phil Plait. Nov 09, 2013 8:00 AM. Tweet Share Share Comment Tweet Share Share Comment ...

The wispy Pencil nebula shines in a new photo by the European Southern Observatory, but astronomers say it looks more like a witch's broom than a pencil.

A telescope in Chile has snapped a stunning new image of a speedy nebula that is named after a writing tool, but has a closer resemblance to a witch's broom, scientists say.Astronomers with the ...

It may look wicked, but a stunning — if not scary — new view of the Witch Nebula unveiled by NASA for Halloween is actually the home of baby stars just beginning their cosmic lives. The image ...