NASA celebrates Hubble-ween with grinning 'Greater Pumpkins' galaxies - CNET

The Hubble Space Telescope caught two galaxies in the act of colliding.

Their orange color earned them the nickname "Greater Pumpkin.".

The It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown animated Peanuts special might not be airing on broadcast TV this year, but you can look to the cosmos for your giant pumpkin Halloween fix.

Hubble -- a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency -- snapped a spooky view of two galaxies colliding, and it reminded NASA of the Peanuts pumpkin, so it earned the nickname "Greater Pumpkin." .

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