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NASA Reveals Spooky Eyes in Space, And They're Staring Straight at You


"If you gaze for long into an abyss," declared German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in 1886, "the abyss gazes also into you." He could not have predicted, perhaps, how literally his words would be interpreted, nearly 140 years later; yet, here we are, gazing upon an image taken across a space-time gulf of 80 million light-years that appears to depict a pair of menacing, baleful eyes, gazing right back.

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