NASA is getting in the Halloween spirit by sharing a striking image of the sun that looks a lot like a flaming jack-o鈥�-lantern.
The Goddard Space Flight Center re-shared the Sunday that shows fiery 鈥渁ctive regions鈥� on the sun that resemble two eyes, a nose and a mouth.
鈥淓ven our star celebrates the spooky season,鈥� the social media accounts wrote over the weekend.
It's ! 鈽�锔� Even our star celebrates the spooky season 鈥� in 2014, active regions on the Sun created this jack-o'-lantern face, as seen in ultraviolet light by our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. ���� Download in high resolution:
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The agency鈥檚 Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) took a series of images five years ago on Oct. 8 at varying wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and combined two of them, gold and yellow, to produce the orange pumpkin-like result.
鈥淭he active regions appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy -- markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun鈥檚 atmosphere, the corona,鈥� the NASA wrote online in 2014.
