Unusual: NASA is photographing the sun smiling, but it is not reassuring

It’s a bit like our star doing a duet with “Baby Soleil” in Télétubbies. NASA just released an image that couldn’t be more bizarre on October 27.

In the image, we can see three dark areas, the largest of which are half-moon-shaped and two circular, arranged in such a way as to form a smiling face. A pareidolia The fact that you associate shapes with known images is unusual!

The agency posted on Twitter on October 27: “Today, NASA’s Solar Observatory spotted the sun smiling.”

“These dark spots on the sun, seen in ultraviolet radiation, are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar winds blast off into space,” NASA said.

The mission of the Dynamic Sun Observatory is to monitor solar activity, determine space weather, and predict, for example, solar eruptions. The mission’s satellite is constantly measuring the sun’s interior, atmosphere, magnetic field and energy production.

Danger of a solar storm

However, if the sun puts on a perfectly friendly face, then what lies beyond coronal holes Nothing reassuring. Many experts note that these phenomena can often lead to a strong release of the substance.

Thanks to their low density, these areas actually allow plasma to emerge more easily than elsewhere, thus causing geomagnetic storms, sometimes toward Earth. Behind the mischievous smile the risk of solar emission? according to WatchmanThis Saturday, October 29, the solar wind may reach Earth.