Photo of the Sun Looking Like a ‘Smiling Emoji’ Published

The Sun, which we have only been able to observe closely and in detail with the developing technology, posed many times with its dazzling beauty and frightening. But our star, which is our life energy, was seen this time spreading happiness around.

NASA shared a new photo of the Sun taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, which has been observing the Sun since 2010. In the image taken on October 26, the Sun seemed to be smiling with black marks on it.

Photo of the sun ‘smiling’:

In fact, the black dots we saw in the image above were structures defined as ‘coronal holes’. These structures are formed by the scattering of the Sun’s magnetic field into space. Solar winds are traveling twice as fast as normal conditions in this region.

Of course, the fact that we liken these black dots to a smile actually has a psychological explanation. The situation of comparing the objects we see in this photograph to a human face is defined as “pareidolia” in psychology. We have explained this situation in detail for you: