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Ghostly gallery: Spooky images from space

By Maggie Mckee

30 October 2008

�鶹��ý. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine. — A ring of dust around the bright star Fomalhaut looks uncannily like the Great Eye of Sauron from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy
(Image: NASA, ESA, Kalas/Graham/UCB, Clampin/NASA/GSFC)

View a gallery of hair-raising images from space, and let us know in the comments section below which you thought were the scariest. Happy Halloween!

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