These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

Lunar Terminator Illusion

A lunar terminator tilt illusion occurs when an observer on Earth wrongly expects that the direction of sunlight illuminating the moon will correspond with the position of the sun. However, it does not appear to do so due to the slope of a slight ray changing across the sky.

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