Space has been an inspiration behind human mythology for thousands of years, and with a little help from technology, we are capturing some images that really bring these legends to life. However, far from being evidence of the supernatural at work, the spooky space images that we are about to show you are nothing out of the ordinary.
Humans can’t help but try to find meaning in meaningless shapes, and the phenomenon even has a name – ‘pareidolia’. It is why we see faces in the clouds, religious icons in our food and constellations in the night sky.
The universe really is a dangerous place, where massive galaxies swallow up their neighbours and greedy stars feast on their close companions. But with the power of pareidolia, it also has witches…
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All About Space (Digital) - 1 Issue, No. 161