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Originally Posted by AndyMartin  Ever look up at a night sky away from a city, where you can actually see stars?
If you focus and try to make them out, they disappear.
If you shut your eyes, they disappear. Obviously.
But if you open your eyes, relax, and let the light come to you, they multiply and multiply until you see more stars than blackness. |
How cool. This is a good example for me because that is how we found the 'arm' of the Milky Way. My daughter was studying astronomy last semester and we did A LOT of laying out in a field staring at the sky. We had a hard time identifying the arm of the Milky Way until we sort of relaxed and stopped looking for it. Then you can see it quite clearly.