NASA posts a photo of the sun looking like a giant flaming jack-o’-lantern

If you thought the super blood wolf moon was scary, you haven’t seen what the sun is capable of.

NASA on Sunday shared a photo on Facebook and Twitter of the sun looking a lot like a giant flaming jack-o’-lantern.

The space agency captured the spooky image on October 8, 2014. The face is the result of active regions of the sun burning more brightly than others, NASA said.

” They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, ” NASA said. ” This image blends together two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths at 171 and 193 Ångströms , typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance. ”

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which took the photo, is constantly monitoring the sun from its orbit in space.

NASA is inviting people to download a high-res image of the pumpkin sun, ” just in time for Halloween. ”