Earlier this week, NASA released a satellite photo showing the sun’s happy face, prompting the US space agency to say the star had been caught “smiling”, The Guardian reports.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA probe that aims to investigate how solar activity is created and determines space weather, has captured several smiling sunspots and posted the images on its Twitter account.
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Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the “smile” of the Sun. These dark spots on the Sun, visible in ultraviolet light, are known as coronal holes and are regions where the fast solar wind is ejected into space. pic.twitter.com/hVRXaN7Z31
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“These dark spots on the Sun, visible in ultraviolet light, are known as coronal holes and are regions where the fast solar wind is ejected into space,” NASA reports.
Despite its friendly appearance, experts warn that the sun’s coronal holes could mean a solar storm could hit Earth on Saturday.
Solar storms are various emissions of mass and energy from the surface of the Sun, which, in turn, distort the Earth’s magnetic field.
As a result, these storms increase the visibility of the aurora borealis, also known as the aurora borealis, in the northern and southern hemispheres.
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