A few weeks ago NASA published a series of posters on its website to celebrate Halloween. The design style of the posters tries to imitate old advertisements promoting horror movies.
Among the entire series of posters, there is a design that shows a dead galaxy, a gamma ray burst, caused by the coalition of stellar corpses and zombies.
Poster themes are fun, but are based on real phenomena. It seems to me that this is the touch of terror that NASA was trying to put in the series of posters.
The interesting thing about this series of posters that NASA titled as: Galaxy of Horrors, is that in addition to having a very good design, all the posters have a version in Spanish.
These are the names of all the posters:
Galactic Cemetery; Watch out: it’s old, red, and dead!
· Dark matter; Something else is out there.
Gamma Ray Demons.
Flares of Fury; Watch out for the horrible tantrum of an angry young star.
Zombie Worlds; Planets caught in the terrible grip of an undead star.
Rain of Terror; It’s death from a million cuts on this Slasher planet!
All the posters can be downloaded in high resolution, so you can print them at home or send them to be printed in a large format. Or for you to use them as wallpaper on all your devices.
Poster Series Designed by NASA
You can download each poster at 4 different formats, each of them is for a different purpose.
For example, the tiff format is ideal for printing in a very large format. Even larger than the classic size of a poster, —50 × 70 cm.
But you also have the option to download the poster in formats; jpeg, pdf and jpeg in low quality.
It is appreciated that NASA produced a poster in Spanish, but the posters in English also look very good. In fact I almost like them as much as the posters in the Spanish version.
Another point that I loved to find in this Nasa project for Halloween is that each poster design invented a little story. This tries to explain each of the elements that are in the design of the poster.
For example, this is the story NASA created for the poster; Galactic Cemetery:
This chillingly haunted galaxy stopped creating stars, mysteriously, just a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic graveyard, lit by the red glow of decaying stars. Dare to enter and you may be faced with the terrifying corpses of exoplanets or the final agony of stars that were once powerful.
And this is the story behind the poster design; Rain of Terror:
This distant planet may seem like a friendly haven… but don’t be fooled! The weather in this world is deadly! The cobalt blue color of the planet comes from a hazy and incendiary atmosphere that contains clouds of glass crystals! Their howling winds send the glass storms at 5,400 MPH (2 km / s), whipping everything in their path in an eerie spiral around the planet! It’s death by a million cuts on this slasher planet!
Just for reading each of the stories on each poster, it is worth a turn around the page.
I recommend that you download all the posters, for their good design and because you can use them wherever you want. You can do whatever you like with them, in general, almost all the resources that NASA publishes on its page are royalty free.
That does not mean that you can print them to sell them, but you do have all the permission to use these posters for personal use.