Satellite photo shows what appears to be a happy face pattern on the sun with dark patches called ‘coronal holes’

A Nasa satellite captured an image of what appeared to be a happy face pattern on the sun earlier this week, prompting the US space agency to say the sun was seen “smiling”.

The agency released the image Wednesday on Twitter, writing: “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.”

Continue reading…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like

Starmer woos Tory voters as he declares ‘fire of change still burns in Britain’

In keynote conference speech, party leader sets out vision of Labour undoing…

Internal displacements reach 15m in 2020 with worst ‘still to come’ – report

Extreme weather, locust invasions and violence have forced people to flee their…

Stormont candidate ‘grabbed by throat’ while canvassing

Hannah Kenny was subjected to sectarian and misogynistic abuse by three men…