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  2. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  3. Olbers's paradox - Wikipedia

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    That is, the light of each shell adds to the total amount. Thus the more shells, the more light; and with infinitely many shells, there would be a bright night sky. While dark clouds could obstruct the light, these clouds would heat up, until they were as hot as the stars, and then radiate the same amount of light.

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Forest Crepuscular Rays

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    As a result, the path of an object shadow through the "fog" appears darkened. In a sense, these shadow lanes are similar to crepuscular rays, which are caused by cloud shadows, but here, they're caused by an object shadows." So in other words there is no difference in the rays we see in gaps of the clouds, or in gaps of trees or other objects.

  5. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    The antumbra (from the Latin ante "before" and umbra "shadow") is the region from which the occluding body appears entirely within the disc of the light source. An observer in this region experiences an annular eclipse , in which a bright ring is visible around the eclipsing body.

  6. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    It can be seen by shining the beam of a small bright light through the pupil from the periphery of a subject's vision. This results in an image of the light being focused on the periphery of the retina. Light from this spot then casts shadows of the blood vessels (which lie on top of the retina) onto unadapted portions of the retina.

  7. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Full Poem and History - AOL

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    'Twas the Night Before Christmas History The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas , was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...

  8. Peduncular hallucinosis - Wikipedia

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    Peduncular hallucinosis (PH) is a rare neurological disorder that causes vivid visual hallucinations that typically occur in dark environments and last for several minutes. . Unlike some other kinds of hallucinations, the hallucinations that patients with PH experience are very realistic, and often involve people and environments that are familiar to the affected individua

  9. Taika Waititi says “What We Do in the Shadows” has ... - AOL

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    Related: Kayvan Novak trolls What We Do in the Shadows Comic-Con panel as Nandor Waititi discussed working on the pirate sitcom Our Flag Means Death as well. "Wonderful show about pirates in which ...