A new image of the sun shows it resembling a Jack-o'-Lantern or a pumpkin head that heralds the Halloween season.

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio combined two images of the sun contrasting the yellow and gold wavelengths that represent the sun's most active regions. These active features that made the sun look like a face are actually areas of intense solar activity where gas and energy are constantly released.

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Some NASA officials said these active regions apparently appear brighter and more dynamic due to the incredible light and energy they emit. These are apparently an intense group of magnetic fields shrouding the sun's corona.

These magnetic solar storms that occur on the sun's surface produce radiation along with charged particles of exploding matter. In effect, these highly charged particles and radiation hurtle towards the Earth where it produces a dazzling display of lights in the Polar Regions called the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis.

Solar storms are disruptive but storms such as the Carrington Event in 1859 are probably the most severe solar storms recorded and witnessed. During the Carrington Event, the Northern Lights were so bright miners looking for gold in the Rocky Mountains thought it was already dawn.

It was also bright enough to read a newspaper outdoors in New England. Telegraph sets across the U.S. went berserk while some burned out, sending an electric shock to telegraph operators.

Today, astronomers estimate there's a 12 percent chance a solar storm of that scale will strike the Earth before 2022.

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