Published 14:35 IST, October 26th 2020
Sun looks like an eerie jack-o’-lantern as people get into sinister spirit for Halloween
Sun's active regions are composed of bright blazes combined with darker spots that emit light in a way that it appears like pumpkin face, NASA informed.
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On October 25, NASA shared a photo of spooky sun that appears to look like a scary jack-o’-lantern face as festivities pick up for Halloween. im was captured Oct. 8, 2014, by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO that watches solar surfaces at all times. In a post, ministration shared on its official Twitter handle, it said, as Halloween edges closer, cosmos puts up creepy celestial displays, referring to pumpkin sun.
According to NASA, sun's active regions are composed of bright blazes combined with darker spots that emit light shes in a way that solar surface looks like carved pumpkin face. se active regions are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in sun’s atmosphere, corona. solar surface is a blend of two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths at 171 and 193 Ångströms, typically colorized in shes of golden and yellow. "In 2014, active regions on Sun traced out an eerie jack-o’-lantern’s face, seen in ultraviolet light by our Sun-watching satellite," NASA informed in caption of spooky sun im.
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This gives sun its Halloween-like appearance. While it was observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, solar body was in 335 angstroms extreme ultraviolet light that led probe to catch a rare glimpse, in which, sun appears to leer from . surface of sun also distinctly projects frowning eyes and a smirk. NASA shared ims in different shes as observed by its SDO.
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Netizens share 'Spooky Dark Sun' ims
Sharing ar perspective, a commenter wrote, "Jack-O-Lanterns face visible at sun-spot are really a sun’s structure held in-universe." "A solar jack 'o lantern! Is Sun, fuel of life, hell itself, residence of ruler, director of anti-life? Perhaps Sol is balancing attractive force that will ultimately collapse our system into original equilibrium," one or said. Meanwhile, ar agreed, saying, "I see Jack’o Lanterns face in sun wow."
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[ sun as imd by Solar Dynamics Observatory on Oct. 8, 2014, in 335 angstrom extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA/SDO. Credit: NASA]
[ sun as imd by Solar Dynamics Observatory on Oct. 8, 2014, in 171 angstrom extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA/SDO. Credit: NASA]
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14:36 IST, October 26th 2020