NASA has shared a picture caught by one of their satellites that appears to show the sun "smiling", but people have been left divided about what the unusual image really looks like ...

Listen to the soothing sounds of a supermassive black hole 00:36. ... The sun put on a similar Halloween-esque face in 2014, when NASA captured images of the sun looking like an eerie jack-o-lantern.

The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the image of what appeared to be a “smiling” face on the solar surface. The pattern was formed by dark splotches called coronal holes.

A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern-esque smile on the sun's surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding ...

A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern-esque smile on the sun's surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding ...

A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern-esque smile on the sun's surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding ...

A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern-esque smile on the sun's surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding areas.

Lenticular galaxy NGC 3489 glows at its heart thanks to a feeding supermassive black hole (Image credit: NASA, ESA, P. Erwin (Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik), L. Ho (Peking ...

Solar Orbiter image of the sun in visible light, taken on March 22, 2023. Sunspots are cooler than the surrounding surface. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team Image of the sun's magnetic field. Red ...