NASA has captured an image of the sun featuring three dark patches that look like a smiling face — a face that could signal a solar storm with problems for Earth.
"Ultraviolet light from the sun can show us the origins of solar storms that can lead to power outages, cell phone disruptions, and delays in shipping packages due to the rerouting of planes from over the pole," Joseph Gurman, a scientist at the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, toldWednesday's image was taken at 193 angstrom light, giving it the yellow, light orange hue. The 2014 image was taken at a blend of 171 and 193 angstrom light, colorizing the sun in gold and yellow"to create a Halloween-like appearance," according to
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