Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2019 October 23

                      Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
   Painting Credit: Vincent van Gogh; Digital Rendering: MoMA, Google Arts
                          & Culture, via Wikipedia

   Explanation: The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons
   of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van
   Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night
   appears, to many, to make the night sky come alive. Although van Gogh
   frequently portrayed real settings in his paintings, art historians do
   not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in
   Starry Night. The style of Starry Night is post-impressionism, a
   popular painting style at the end of the nineteenth century. The
   original Starry Night painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New
   York City, New York, USA.

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