Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2020 March 13
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                    Starry Night by Jean-Francois Millet
     Digital Reproduction Credit: [3]Yale University Art Gallery - Text:
                                Letty Bonnell

   Explanation: [4]A dramatic nocturnal landscape from around 1850, this
   oil painting is the work of [5]French artist Jean-Francois Millet. In
   the dark and atmospheric night sky are shooting stars, known too as
   meteors, above a landscape showing a path through the faintly lit
   countryside that leads toward trees and a cart in silhouette on the
   horizon. Millet was raised in a farming family in Normandy and is known
   for his paintings of rural scenes and peasant life. This Starry Night
   was painted after the artist moved to Barbizon, about 30 kilometers
   southeast of any 19th century [6]light pollution from Paris. Millet
   wrote to his brother at this time, "If only you knew how beautiful the
   night is ... the calm and grandeur of it are so awesome that I find
   that I actually feel overwhelmed." Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh was an
   admirer of Millet's work, and later [7]also painted two dramatic
   [8]starry nights.

                      Tomorrow's picture: pi in the sky
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