NASA Captures Image of the Smiling Sun, What Does It Mean?

NASA's Satellite, Solar Dynamics Observatory surprisingly captures images of the Sun that look like happy facial patterns. (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - One of NASA's satellites, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, captured a surprising image of the Sun that looks like a pattern of a happy face, so the agency calls it a smile.

"Today, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the Sun smiling. Visible in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the Sun are known as coronal holes and are areas where the solar wind rapidly shoots out into space," NASA said on its Twitter account.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is an agency mission that aims to investigate how the Sun's activity and space weather.

First launched on February 11, 2010, the satellite measures the magnetic field and atmosphere of the sun directly. Furthermore, he also measured the Sun's extreme ultraviolet radiation, which is a major driver of the structure and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere.

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Although it looks unique, experts warn that the sun's coronal hole may mean there is a solar storm hitting Earth by spewing out three streams of solar wind traveling at about three million mph.

Solar storms are eruptions of mass and energy from the sun's surface which in turn destroys the earth's magnetic field. As a result, these storms increase the visibility of the aurora, in the northern and southern hemispheres.

Since its release, the rare NASA photo has sparked many responses online, many saying it resembles the carvings of Halloween pumpkins, lions and the sun featured in the children's show Teletubbies.