• Hubble shared an image of two galaxies forming what astronomers dubbed the "Greater Pumpkin"
  • The image is a result of a collision between two galaxies, the NGC 2292 and NGC 2293
  • The galaxy pair is located 120 million light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a "galactic pumpkin" just in time for this year's Halloween. The Hubble captured an image of a pair of galaxies that looks like a Halloween decoration in space as they are in the early stages of a collision.

Described as the "Greater Pumpkin" by astronomers, the photo NASA shared on its Twitter and website shows what appears to be two eyes and a crooked smile inside a pumpkin-shaped head. The object emits a bright orange color, while the sector surrounding the "smile" is bluish.

The so-called "Greater Pumpkin" consists of two galaxies, identified as NGC 2292 and NGC 2293, that together span 109,000 light-years in diameter.

The orange color emitting from the two gala

xies is due to aging red stars, while the bluish hue of its smile is due to newborn star clusters scattered along a newly forming dusty arm. The "eyes" of the pumpkin, meanwhile, are actually concentrations of stars around a pair of supermassive black holes.

Check out the image of Hubble's "galactic pumpkin" below

Explaining the collision, Hubble astronomers said on the NASA website that galaxies lose their flattened spiral disks when they crash into one another, and their stars are gathered into a football-shaped volume of space, resulting in an elliptical galaxy.