The Sun Smiled: Bulgarian Astronomers Captured the Curious Phenomenon

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The Sun showed an unusual “smiling face”, and the curious moment was filmed by young amateur astronomers in Varna. On October 8, Viktoria Belcheva and Valentina Georgieva from the circle at the National Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium “Nicolas Copernicus” managed to photograph a configuration of sunspots that resembles a human face with a wide smile. Behind the amusing visual resemblance is actually one of the most interesting processes…