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Galaxy of Horrors Trailer

A movie trailer for our Galaxy of Horrors done in the style of the 50s and 60s showing raining glass, and pulsar zombie worlds.

Lurking beyond our solar system, among the billions of stars and the exoplanets that orbit them, is another sort of Milky Way altogether. Our "Galaxy of Horrors" reveals the sinister science behind real worlds we’ve discovered in our galaxy.

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NASA-JPL/Caltech

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