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  2. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Naked-eye galaxies Galaxy Apparent Magnitude Distance Constellation Notes Milky Way: −6.5 [a] 0 Sagittarius (centre) This is the galaxy containing the Sun and its Solar System, and therefore Earth. Most things visible to the naked eye in the sky are part of it, including the Milky Way composing the Zone of Avoidance. [12] Large Magellanic ...

  3. Cool Hand Luke - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $3.2 million [ 1] Box office. $16.2 million [ 2] Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, [ 3] starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.

  4. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Eye color. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [ 1][ 2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [ 3]: 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of ...

  5. Helix Nebula - Wikipedia

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    Helix Nebula. The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, most likely before 1824, this object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. [ 3] The distance, measured by the Gaia mission, is 655±13 light ...

  6. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Color vision. Colorless, green, and red photographic filters as imaged by camera. Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity. Color perception is a part of the larger visual system and is mediated by a complex process ...

  7. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective . Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  8. Barreleye - Wikipedia

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    The eyes of Winteria telescopa differ slightly from those of other opisthoproctids by their more forward-pointing gaze.. Barreleyes, also known as spook fish (a name also applied to several species of chimaera), are small deep-sea argentiniform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

  9. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...