
Ahead of Halloween, NASA spooked netizens with an eerie picture of the sun. Resembling a jack-o’-lantern (a hollowed-out pumpkin with facial features cut into it for Halloween) NASA tweeted a 2014 picture featuring the sun with what looks like slanted eyes and a sinister smile.
“No, that’s not a fiery jack-o’-lantern 🔥🎃. It’s the Sun! Our @NASASun. Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this ultraviolet image in 2014, showing active regions on our home star,” read the tweet, which quickly went viral.
Retweeted over three thousand times, the post was flooded with people responding to the image of the sun. “The sun is haunted,” wrote a user, while another tweeted, “Sun just said ‘Happy Halloween'”.
Halloween is a three-day festival to remember the dead. Widely observed in several countries around the world on October 31, people indulge in several actives such trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, playing pranks, and visiting haunted attractions on the occasion.