5 spooky space images

A wicked witch appears to scream into space in the appropriately named from Witch Head nebula. This image was taken by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

According to the NASA web site, this image depicts baby stars being born in fluffy dust clouds, lit up by massive stars. Dust, heated by nearby stars, glows with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors.

The Witch Head nebula is in the Orion constellation, just off the hunter's knee.

WISE was put into hibernation in 2011 but was recently "awakened" to hunt for asteroids in a program called NEOWISE.

Ghost galaxies

According to the NASA web site, these glowing specters are stars that were "ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.”

The ghosts of galaxies past were spotted in Massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Jack-o-lantern sun

This image, taken Oct. 8, 2014, shows the sun shining like a jack-o-lantern.

Haunting nebula

Adam Block/Mount Lemmon Sky Center/University of Arizona

This image shows the ghostly nebula LBN 483.

Adam Block, manager at the Mount Lemmon Sky Center at the University of Arizona said (as quoted in Universe Today): “My mind alternates between something dancing in ecstasy or writhing in torture... Either way, very spooky…”

Jupiter's cyclops eye

NASA/ESA/A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)

The Hubble Telescope was monitoring changes in Jupiter’s immense Great Red Spot (GRS) storm on April 21, 2014, when a moon cast its shadow across the center of the 10,000-mile-wide storm. "For a moment," NASA said, "Jupiter 'stared' back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops."