This image of the Sun turned into a smiley face is the most adorable thing you will see today.

When you’re badly burned out, it’s always good to show off your best smile. sounds very similar Mister Wonderfulbut this is what it seems like the Sun refers to the letter, according to the latest image posted on the Twitter page NASA Solar Space. Okay, logically, that’s not a real smile. But the truth is, in the photo our star looks like smiling emoticon dearest.

What you really see three coronal holes, two in the form of eyes and one similar to the mouth. In addition, it has been noticed that gusts of the solar wind grow from them into space. A good show that manages to fool our brains with a phenomenon known as pareidolia.

pareidolia is psychological phenomenon, which allows us to see faces or other detailed shapes on objects that don’t really have anything to do with it. Basically, the brain takes rather vague stimuli and turns them into something completely recognizable. Like a smiley that actually has nothing to do with the image taken from Solar Dynamics Observatorya space telescope that NASA launched into space in 2010 to study the Sun.

Coronal holes and a painted smile on the sun

Coronal holes are temporary regions of relatively colder and less dense plasma in solar corona. That is, in the outermost layer of the Sun. When observed in the ultraviolet, they are visible in the images as dark spots and, having an open magnetic field, allow that the solar winds escape into space much faster than usual.

In the case of the NASA image, they three dark spotstwo at the top, similar to eyes, and a third, the curvature of which makes you think of a smile.

Pareidolia turns the Sun into a smiley face, although there were those who, after the NASA publication, compared it with marshmallowone of the villains of the Ghostbusters.

Others, on the contrary, imitate him in the images of one of doctor who episodes. Even as we get closer to Halloween, we can even compare it to a holiday. pumpkin. Of course he has color and a smile.

The options are endless. And the thing is, while none of them are real, it’s sometimes delightful to let your imagination run wild with something as unsmiling as a scientific depiction of the sun. What do you see in that smile sun image?