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Image of the "smiling" Sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory on October 26, 2022. Credit: NASA/SDO

NASA's SDO (Solar Dynamic Observatory) spacecraft photographed the sun "smiling"

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These dark spots on the Sun, visible in ultraviolet light, are called coronal holes and are areas where fast solar wind bursts out into space. By chance, they managed to take a photo that looked like the sun was smiling.
A giant solar flare recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Source: NASA/SDO/AIA/GoddarSpace Flight Center.

Detectives following the sun

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The Pegasus XL rocket is launched from an airplane with the Iris spacecraft on it, June 29, 2013. Photo: NASA

NASA launched the Iris spacecraft from an airplane to explore the Sun

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The effect of solar storms on Earth. Image: NASA

NOAA has assumed responsibility for solar storm warnings

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Artist's perception - the sun as a changing star that seems very fixed to us

A new spacecraft to be launched this week will transmit high-quality video photographs of the Sun

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Has the mystery of the missing sunspots been solved?

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