Space.com, which first reported the images, notes that this kind of Halloween-themed coincidence isn't new. The Sun has shown similar expressions before: a "smile" captured in 2022 and a jack-o'-lantern-like glow spotted in 2014—both caught by the same spacecraft, which has been observing the Sun since 2010.

Just before Halloween, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a striking image of the Sun that appears to be grinning at Earth like a cosmic jack-o’-lantern. The pattern, made of glowing active regions and deep dark coronal holes,

NASA launched the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, September 24.

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest known asteroid in the solar system.

NASA's SDO captured a jack-o'-lantern-like face on the sun as a coronal hole sends solar wind toward Earth ahead of Halloween.