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Explore NASA's media galleries to view and download high-resolution images of the solar system, agency missions, and more.
![Colorful, artistic illustration of a star stripping away a planet's atmosphere](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wallpaper-roasted-planet.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Roasted Planet - New Poster
As HD 80606 b approaches its star from an extreme, elliptical orbit, it suffers star-grazing torture that causes howling, supersonic winds and shockwave storms across the planet.
![A fierce bat, fangs bared, is used to represent dark energy in this science-inspired horror poster.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wallpaper-dark-energy-1.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Dark Energy - New Poster
An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material only revealed by its gravitational pull.
![A colorful, whimsical illustration of a black home with swirling colors and the edges and infinite blackness in the middle.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/black-hole-wallpaper.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Devoured by Gravity - Poster
Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster black hole named CygnusX-1. Don’t get too close, or you’ll become its next meal!
![A shattered skull orbits a blazing star in this Halloween-ispired science poster.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wallpaper-graveyard.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Galactic Graveyard - Poster
This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic cemetery, illuminated by the red glow of decaying stars.
![A scary illustration of a giant spider in a web of dark matter.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wallpaper-dark-matter.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Dark Matter - Poster
Something strange and mysterious creeps throughout the cosmos. Scientists call it dark matter. It is scattered in an intricate web that forms the skeleton of our universe.
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Gamma Ray Ghouls - Poster
In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light – gamma rays. These beams are unleashed and shine a million trillion times brighter than the Sun.
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Flares of Fury - Poster and Interactive
AU Microscopii is among the youngest planetary systems ever observed! This devilish young star holds planet AU Mic b captive inside a looming disk of ghostly dust and torments it with deadly blasts of X-rays and other radiation.
![A human skull blasts light from its right eye in this horror-movie-inspired scientific poster.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wallpaper-zombie-worlds.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Zombie Worlds - Poster and Interactive
These doomed worlds were among the first to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and neighbors Phobetor and Draugr are consumed with constant radiation.
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Rains of Terror - Poster and Interactive
Weather on HD 189733 b is deadly. Howling winds send storming glass sideways at 5,400 mph (2km/s), whipping all in a sickening spiral. It’s death by a million cuts on this slasher exoplanet!
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Kepler's Inferno - Interactive
Kepler-70b (a.k.a. KOI-55) could well be another circle of hell with an average temperature of about 12,000 degrees F (6,800 C). It used to be Jupiter-sized until it spent time inside its now-dead star…a trip that destroys most planets!
![Illustration of a fierce demon swallowing a planet whole in this orror movie inspired science interactive.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/monster-mash.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Monster Mash - Interactive
A hulking monster of a star is stealing pieces of its nearby planet, WASP-12b, and extreme gravity is stretching the hot gas giant into the shape of an egg. If you enjoy watching the world fall to pieces, this planet is for you.
![Bats rise toward a darkened planet in this horror-movie-inspired illustration](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/horrors.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Eternal Darkness - Interactive
Are you afraid of the dark? Welcome to TrEs-2b, the planet of eternal night. The darkest planet ever discovered orbiting a star, this alien world is less reflective than coal with a burning atmosphere – the air is as hot as lava.