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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Planetary Nebula Abell 7 (2025 Mar 07)

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To the lower right of the nebula are 3 sets of two dots arranged in a circle. Is that a real thing?
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Sure, no reason to think otherwise. In a field of random dots, our pattern matching system and pareidolia will result in us finding all kinds of apparent structure that has no physical meaning.

Statistics: Posted by Chris Peterson — Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:08 pm — Replies 9 — Views 2918



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