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Happy Halloween: NASA releases photo of 'jack-o-lantern' sun

Author
Alaa Elassar, CNN,
Publish Date
Mon, 28 Oct 2019, 11:30am
The image was captured in 2014. (Photo / NASA via CNN)
The image was captured in 2014. (Photo / NASA via CNN)

Happy Halloween: NASA releases photo of 'jack-o-lantern' sun

Author
Alaa Elassar, CNN,
Publish Date
Mon, 28 Oct 2019, 11:30am

If you thought the super blood wolf moon was scary, you haven't seen what the sun is capable of.

NASA on Sunday shared a photo on Facebook and Twitter of the sun looking a lot like a giant flaming jack-o'-lantern.

The space agency captured the spooky image on October 8, 2014. The face is the result of active regions of the sun burning more brightly than others, NASA said.

"They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona," NASA said. "This image blends together two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths at 171 and 193 Ångströms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance."

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which took the photo, is constantly monitoring the sun from its orbit in space.

NASA is inviting people to download a high-res image of the pumpkin sun, "just in time for Halloween."

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