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I searched about this and I did find that it's like the effect you have on train tracks or roads (that they appear to be going to converge at a point), but doesn't that only happen when the object stretchs towards you and when the point where it arrives is much closer to you than the point where it originates?

Why do sunbeams diverge even though the sun is much more than a few kilometers away? Yes, I already saw this question. But don't the answers they gave only work if the sun rays are directed towards the observer?

Why does in this picture, we can see two sun rays, both originating and arriving in very close places, not directed towards us, and yet one looks parallel while the other is tilted 45°?

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  • $\begingroup$ Check out this thread: physics.stackexchange.com/q/154951 ("Why do sunbeams diverge even though the sun is much more than a few kilometers away?") $\endgroup$
    – Not_Einstein
    Commented Oct 19, 2021 at 23:15
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    $\begingroup$ Does this answer your question? Why do sunbeams diverge even though the sun is much more than a few kilometers away? $\endgroup$
    – BioPhysicist
    Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 0:40
  • $\begingroup$ @BioPhysicist That's what I said. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Not_Einstein
    Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 1:47
  • $\begingroup$ Would it not seem even more strange if there were rays of light in the picture that did not seem to emanate from the Sun? If not from the Sun, then where would you expect them to come from? $\endgroup$
    – Solomon Slow
    Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 1:48
  • $\begingroup$ @Not_Einstein Mine was an automated comment when I left a vote to close as a duplicate. $\endgroup$
    – BioPhysicist
    Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 1:49

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