The “smiling sun” photo was originally captured on October 26, 2022, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The photo has resurfaced on social media because of the Sun’s distinctly cheerful appearance. Our tendency to interpret these patterns as eyes and a mouth is known as pareidolia. This means the human brain readily recognizes familiar faces […]
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