Whether it’s Elvis on your potato chip or George Washington as a McNugget, humans are extremely good at spotting human-like faces where there shouldn’t be any. Ever thought a three-point plug looks like a surprised emoji? Or that your Cheerios aligned into a happy smile? You know what I mean. This phenomenon is called pareidolia — the tendency to see patterns (or in this case, faces) in random collections of shapes, colors, and images. This is most acutely apparent in the Rorschach inkblot test — but it can also be apparent at the cosmic scale, too.
