When we think we have seen everything, something new appears that surprises us again. It happens very often with the photographs and videos that come to us from universe. Especially since the james webb space telescope capture and send images detailed images ever captured, in a mission that since July is changing our way of seeing the cosmos. The observatory has shown us nebulae, dying stars and colliding galaxies. The Hubble telescope is not far behind either. In fact, in March she showed off Earendel, the most distant star discovered to date. Now the NASA It amazes us again with another spectacular and unprecedented image: that of the Sun ‘smiling’.
The smile of the Sun is not new: we have the habit, especially children, of painting a happy face in the middle of the star king when we draw it on paper. But that is fiction. Now, albeit fortuitously, it is real: the Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA captured the sun ‘smiling’ on Thursday.
Fortuitously happy face: they are coronal holes
We say that it is accidental because the telescope, launched in February 2010 with the sole mission of studying the star king, analyzed with ultraviolet light the calls coronal holes from the Sun. These areas appear and disappear in the sun surface constantly.
They are characterized by having lower temperatures and densities than those around them, where the solar wind also gushes out into space and that is why they are seen dark, reported the space agency through a tweet.
On Thursday it so happened that they formed a smiley face and NASA shared that adorable and nice instant in the social networks saying ‘Say cheese’ (Smile, in English). The truth is that she not only gets it, but we have ‘melted’ to see her.
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Many Twitter users have compared the image to a pumpkin carved from Halloween o one león. with some acquaintances chocolate cookies who have a happy face and even with the sun that appeared in the children’s program ‘Teletubbies‘ or the villain marshmallow man of the ‘The Ghostbusters‘.
Say cheese! ????
Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the Sun “smiling.” Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the Sun are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space. pic.twitter.com/hVRXaN7Z31
— NASA Sun, Space & Scream ???? (@NASASun) October 26, 2022
Despite its sweet and cuddly appearance, coronal holes don’t just appear. They are usually the sign of a solar storm and this time will be no different: the waves of solar wind y cosmic radiationthree times stronger than normal, will impact the Earth this Saturday, different specialized media report.
Is that the face of the Stay Puff marshmellow man from Ghostbusters? pic.twitter.com/NKpAqMrWDU
— Watt on Earth Four ( it / that ) (@Watt_on_Earth4) October 27, 2022