It's Halloween! Well, really it's Halloween Eve as I type, but it'll be Halloween when you see this. So let's go a little hard.
It being Halloween, we might as well start with a monster.
The Sentinel-2 satellite captured this image of Melissa's eye at peak intensity. 10m pixel resolution - one of the best satellite images ever captured of a hurricane of this intensity.
— Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁 (@forecaster25) October 28, 2025
Image from 16z this morning. pic.twitter.com/yHL8oRrF40
There wa a lot of debate within PJ what that looks like, with general agreement it looks like a bulldog. It's obviously a sleeping dragon curled up with head on tail. What it really is is a hurricane with the highest surface winds recorded ever.
Sunrise revealing a beautiful yet absolutely sickening sight…category 5 Hurricane #Melissa approaching Jamaica. This will be a storm like no other. I hope everyone stays safe and I’m sending my prayers for all in the path of this monster. pic.twitter.com/qQ3qANHMHJ
— Collin Gross (@CollinGrossWx) October 28, 2025
I wrote a story once in which the ghost — more of a succubus, really — becomes visible in mirrors. Not quite this big, but mirrors.
Messier 78: Orion’s Ghostly MirrorHidden in the sword of Orion, M78 (aka NGC 2068) is a cosmic reflection nebula — a shimmering veil of dust that glows not by its own light, but by stealing the brilliance of newborn https://t.co/Ru1m9RkG2T reigns as the brightest jewel in a… pic.twitter.com/TPIIqKQLbR
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) October 28, 2025
Supernovae are scary, right?
Fascinating: Spiral galaxy UGC 5460 recently saw two “supernovae,” but one was really a luminous blue variable, a rare star that explodes but endures.
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) October 28, 2025
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Jacobson-Galán, A. Filippenko, J. Mauerhan) pic.twitter.com/W8QYeTEpLM
A supernova's leftovers.
A glimpse of the Veil Nebula, the brilliant debris left behind by a titanic star—about 20 times the mass of our Sun—that met its end in a supernova roughly 10,000 years ago.
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) October 28, 2025
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit) pic.twitter.com/UGsroVyPuo
They can be pretty, though.
SN 1993J — a supernova caught mid-explosion by the Hubble Space Telescope: a star ripping itself apart, blasting plasma jets at 30,000 km/s, while its core collapses into a black hole or neutron star — all unfolding live in the cosmos. pic.twitter.com/8TwJr6Hc1d
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) October 28, 2025
I wonder what special day Andrew is hinting at?
New work is dropping tomorrow to email subscribers! I shot this earlier this year and decided to wait to reveal it.
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) October 28, 2025
This release will have 2 images that share a theme, and it is tied to the significance of a certain approaching day...
Here's a crop from one of them pic.twitter.com/IUDvbRkaxb
Well, okay, this one isn't scary, but it's pretty.
Last night’s Celestial Bridge over Bryce Canyon 🌠🌕
— Milky Way Astronomers✨ (@fascinatingonX) October 27, 2025
For a few fleeting moments, the Milky Way arched perfectly across the canyon — meeting the rising moon in a glow that looked almost unreal.
No filters, no edits — just Earth and sky connecting in silence.
📍 Captured near… pic.twitter.com/LohuZj21Q8
You know I have to have the Pleiades.
My latest capture - the Pleiades Star Cluster (M45). It's around 444 light-years from Earth and can be seen with the naked eye.
— Chuck's Astrophotography (@chucksastropho1) October 27, 2025
Celestron RASA telescope
ZWO ASI533MC camera
Antlia L-Filter pic.twitter.com/hSrb2QM7vD
Comet Lemmon continues to be spectacular.
Check out this crazy timelapse I made last night of the Lemmon comet. You can see how the chunks in the tail stream off into space! pic.twitter.com/PcPt1V3e7t
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) October 27, 2025
It would be wrong to tease that title and not include the song.
That does it for this week. As always, I love comments, and I hope you get lots of candy in your bags tonight. Or, like my father when I was little, lots to fill your shot glasses.
See you next week.
