“Say cheese!” NASA reveals a stunning shot of the “smiling” sun
An image taken by one of the US space agency’s satellites reveals a smiling face on the surface of our star.
A NASA satellite has captured an image of what appears to be a happy face pattern on the surface of the Sun. And the agency published the photo Wednesday on Twitter with the comment: Say ‘cheese’! Today, the Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA caught the sun smiling.
Since its publication, the NASA image has generated many reactions, with many comparing the image to a file Halloween pumpkin carveda lion or even the sun is present in the Teletubbies children’s show.
Read also:
“The biggest in 8 years”: the amazing discovery of a planet-killing asteroid hidden in the sun’s rays
coronal holes
What might be thought of as a mouth and two eyes are actually coronal holes as well “Regions where solar material is viewed in space”. The fact that they appear in black in the NASA image is due to the fact that they appear in UV light.
But despite her friendly appearance, this shot shows Mass and energy explosions that distort the Earth’s magnetic field. The main threats to telecommunications, solar storms It can go so far as to deprive us of the internet for several months.
Say cheese! \ ud83d \ udcf8
Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun “smiling.” These dark spots on the Sun, seen in ultraviolet light, are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar winds flow into space. pic.twitter.com/hVRXaN7Z31
– NASA Sun, Space and Scream\ud83c\udf83 (@NASASun) October 26 2022
“Incurable web evangelist. Hipster-friendly gamer. Award-winning entrepreneur. Falls down a lot.”