There are a fair few that deserve a mention:
How everyone imagines the Pyramids of Giza:
What they look like from any other angle:
Or the painting of the Last Supper:
It isn’t displayed in any museum, because it’s a fresco (Edit: Thank you to John Sergent for correcting me. The Last Supper is NOT a fresco! It’s best defined as a Mural over gesso) high up on the wall of the dining room in a Milanese monastery.
It has been painted over and restored so many times in its 500-year history that there is no remaining paint, that is visible, that came from the hand of Leonardo da Vinci.
This classic, beautiful footage of the Saturn V rocket jettisoning its second stage connecting ring, which burns and tumbles away in the exhaust from the second stage engines:
Next stop, the moon! Right? Wrong. This footage is from Apollo 6. An unmanned orbital flight. Have you ever seen what happens a few seconds after?
Skip to 4:20 (lol) and you’ll see the classic footage. Then you’ll see a brief flash of the camera being jettisoned. It’s why the footage was good. They didn’t have the technology to transmit the video back to earth, they had to literally yeet the camera into the Atlantic Ocean to recover the film.
You know who this guy is, right?
Of course. This image has been reproduced over half a billion times since it was created in 1940. That’s Jesus. An alabaster skinned, not even a light tan, lightly bearded, ash-blond Jesus. From the eastern Mediterranean. Good old white Jesus. He could pass as a barista called Trevor in a Brooklyn Starbucks.
He probably looked more like this:
This was awkward for, say, a certain fascist regime that was really gaining traction around 1940.
Then there’s this:
A seemingly empty patch of night sky, no bigger than your thumbnail when held at arm’s length. Empty. Void. Barren. Deceptive. When astronomers decided to make the seemingly bizarre decision to point a multi-billion-dollar space telescope at it for months at a time, that patch of deceptively empty space yielded this image:
Each point of light is a galaxy, containing hundreds of billions of stars, each one spanning hundreds of thousands of light years. We turned our eyes to the emptiest, most insignificant little patch of nothing amongst the celestial grandeur, and found worlds and stars beyond measure. This tiny square of sky, selected by those astronomers for the very fact that it was the most obviously bland and vacant space, revealed the enormity of existence in a stark, chilling, unfathomable way.
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