Monday, November 7, 2022

NASA Captures the Sun in a Huge Wind Smiley Face (LOOK)

NASA Captures the Sun in a Huge Wind Smiley Face (LOOK)

NASA produced a photo of the sun "smiling" just in time for Halloween.

Their Solar Dynamics Observatory took the positive image they shared in late October through Twitter.

NASA stated that the smile we see here is made up of three coronal holes, which are solar oscillations during which fast bursts of the solar wind are emitted.

"These dark areas on the Sun seen in ultraviolet light are known as coronal holes and are regions where rapid solar wind gushes out into space."

It reminds us of the Hubble Space Telescope image of a big smiling emoji formed of stars.

The image was discovered by an amateur astronomer and entered into NASA's Hidden Treasures of Hubble competition. She zoomed down on a galaxy cluster that appeared to be smiling down on Earth, the grin created by light distortion caused by powerful gravitational lensing.



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