Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on.

They're spooky tricksters in their names, as they have nothing to do with planets at all and are rather the gory scenes of stars dying. The term "planetary nebula" actually comes from an accident. Long ago, astronomers using early-iteration telescopes thought these objects looked like planets because of how rounded they appeared. We now know this to be untrue, of course, but the planetary nebulas continue to be disguised by their own titles.

But once you've moved on from this trick, the ruse is softened by the absolute treat it is to view one of these enchanting bundles of gas and dust. Indeed, the planetary nebula seen above, known as the Red Spider Nebula and imaged by the James Webb Spa

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