optical illusion
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No, the Capsicum Isn’t Screaming at You. Here’s Why You See Faces in Everyday Objects
It’s called face pareidolia: It’s an optical illusion in which people can see a facial structure in a monotonous, everyday object.
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What Is This Weird Bend In Saturn’s Rings?
Look closely at this photograph of Saturn. There, in the planet’s two outermost rings, is something very strange. Right where they pass behind the planet, those rings are bending.
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Wait, Is This River Floating?
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo yesterday, that he took from aboard the International Space Station. You can see the Bighorn River, which stretches through Wyoming and Montana… and, wait, why does it look like it’s floating?
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Wow, All These Rotating White Dots Are Actually Moving In Straight Lines
Video: It looks like the white dots in this optical illusion are all orbiting an imaginary point in space that, at the same time, is orbiting the center of that red circle. They are not. In reality, they are all moving in straight lines going from one side of the red circle to the opposite…