MANY people might boast they have the biggest pumpkin tomorrow, but this one is as big as the sun – because it is the sun.
Ahead of Halloween, Nasa has shared this strange snap, in which the blazing-hot star looks more like a cleverly carved, if somewhat malevolent, glowing pumpkin.
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The sun looks like a malevolent pumpkin with its grimacing smile and eyesCredit: Cover Images
Its grimacing smile and slanted eyes are created by active regions on the sun’s surface.
The spooky shot was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, which is constantly watching the sun from its orbit in space.
Here, we bring you other scary space snaps that are truly out of this world . . .
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Spooky sorceress the Witch Head Nebula is magicked up in the sky by light reflected from a huge star in the Orion constellationCredit: Cover Images
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This screaming skull is the Perseus Cluster of galaxies seen in X-rays - but with its black mouth gaping ominously it looks like it is hovering malevolently in the skyCredit: Cover Images
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Its the ghost with the most as the dark dust in a starry area swirls into a spooky spectreCredit: Cover Images
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Is this scary Saurons Tower from The Lord Of The Rings or a devilish eye in a furious face as planet Fomalhaut b orbits its parent star?Credit: Cover Images
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Two gleaming eyes gaze from a ghostly glistening face in this eerie image showing two galaxies collidingCredit: Cover Images
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The Ghost Head Nebula looks like a potion conjured up by a wizard as the star-forming complex sits ominously in the skyCredit: Cover Images
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