[pics] The Pareidolia Thread

[Techykev]

I did a double-take when I saw this.

[StevieM]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]68490[/ATTACH] I did a double-take when I saw this.

Tell 'em about the honey, mummy!

 

[6Foot2]

Link: Nuneaton mum finds 'baby seal' in potato peel for Easter meal | UK News | Metro News

 

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[elsiegee40]

Doing the rounds on social media

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Space for charging your electric catr.

 

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Link: Crab that looks like a Cornish pasty found in Cornwall: pictures | Falmouth Packet

 

A fisherman was stunned to find an ultra-rare 'sponge-coated' crab off the coast of Cornwall – that looks just like a Cornish pasty.

 

Ian Jepson, who has been a sustainable lobster and crab pot fisherman for 35 years, discovered the usual crustacean while out at sea.

 

He said they seemingly carve out a piece of sponge that sits loosely on their back – resulting in a close resemblance to the local crimped and baked favourite.

 

Ian said the sighting six miles off the coast of Perranporth had certainly helped brighten up his day at sea.

 

He added: "We do get a few weird things now and again and it is great to see. It certainly makes the day more enjoyable out here.

 

"We caught it six miles off Perranporth and were delighted. You don't see them often, so it was lovely to see. Afterwards we carefully and slowly returned it so the sponge remained on its back...

 

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Link: Just in Time for Halloween, NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Eerie “Face” on Jupiter

 

 

On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet’s far northern regions called Jet N7. The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. The low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes playing out in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

 

As often occurs in views from Juno, Jupiter’s clouds in this picture lend themselves to pareidolia, the effect that causes observers to perceive faces or other patterns in largely random patterns.

 

Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 4,800 miles (about 7,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 69 degrees north.

 

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing ...

 

*PS: Sorry this post is late.

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Link: Cosmic Christmas tree: NASA kicks off holiday festivities with sparkling Christmas tree cluster - Science News

 

As Christmas approaches, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released an image of a space Christmas tree.

 

The image is of NGC 2264, a cluster of young stars, which is also known as the "Christmas Tree Cluster".

 

A cosmic tree

 

Released just days before Christmas, the new composite image resembles a Christmas tree, but this is a result of "choices of colour and rotation."

 

"It's beginning to look a lot like cosmos," wrote NASA on X, formerly Twitter.

 

There's also an even more festive, Christmas-ey, blinking light version of the image. In it, blinking blue and white lights as per the space agency are "young stars that give off X-rays detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray".

 

In the cosmic images, the green colour of the "pine needles" corresponds to gas in the nebula. This was the result of optical data from the National Science Foundation's WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak. While the twinkling foreground and background stars in white are from infrared data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey.

 

"This image has been rotated clockwise by about 160 degrees from the astronomer’s standard of North pointing upward, so that it appears like the top of the tree is toward the top of the image," adds NASA.

 

NGC 2264

 

The cluster of young stars, NGC 2264, as per NASA, has stars aged between one and five million years, and it is our planet's cosmic neighbour — located in our Milky Way galaxy, just about 2,500 light years away from Earth.

 

NGC 2264's stars, as per the space agency, vary in size. Some are smaller than our star: the Sun, others are larger. Their sizes range from less than a tenth the mass of the Sun to some as big as seven times the solar mass.

 

[StevieM]

It looks more like a green man/monster running to me.

[Techykev]

Godzilla in the sky?

[LeMarchand]

 

More chips! Gimme more chips!

[Dos_Box]

Otter on a rock. I took this at Gait Barrows near Silverdale.

 

[6Foot2]

Link: NASA releases freaky photo of what appears to be an ET's decapitated head on Mars - Boing Boing

 

[Ditto]

Oh yes, a face indeed, but is it just me that can see the Macbeth behind the head?!

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Kneadless to say, that is a shocked expression!

Edited October 24, 2024 by 6Foot2

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USS Monitor?

 

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"Oh, don't think so!"

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Spider-Man woz 'ere?