NASA Snaps Photo of 'Smiling' Sun

Almost perfectly timed for Halloween, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped a rather amusing image wherein it appears that the sun is smiling. The cartoonish picture was reportedly taken by the space-based scientific outpost last Wednesday. Sharing the uncanny image on social media, the space agency explained that the dark patches which make up the eerie visage's eyes and nose are, in fact, areas known as coronal holes and that they are regions on the sun where "fast solar wind gushes out into space." While the celestial jack-o'-lantern is undoubtedly a wondrous sight, experts caution that the forces which created the 'face' are no laughing matter.

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