Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 October 23 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh Painting Credit: [3]Vincent van Gogh; Digital Rendering: [4]MoMA, [5]Google Arts & Culture, via [6]Wikipedia Explanation: The painting [7]Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by [8]Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of [9]Starry Night appears, to many, to make the night sky [10]come alive. Although [11]van Gogh frequently portrayed [12]real settings in his paintings, art historians do not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in [13]Starry Night. The style of [14]Starry Night is [15]post-impressionism, a popular painting style at the end of the nineteenth century. The original Starry Night painting hangs in the [16]Museum of Modern Art in [17]New York City, [18]New York, [19]USA. New: [20]APOD Read to You by AI Tomorrow's picture: Seahorse Sky __________________________________________________________________ [21]< | [22]Archive | [23]Submissions | [24]Index | [25]Search | [26]Calendar | [27]RSS | [28]Education | [29]About APOD | [30]Discuss | [31]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [32]Robert Nemiroff ([33]MTU) & [34]Jerry Bonnell ([35]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [36]Specific rights apply. [37]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [38]ASD at [39]NASA / [40]GSFC & [41]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1910/StarryNight_VanGogh_30000.jpg 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh 4. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802 5. https://artsandculture.google.com/ 6. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_Night 8. https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/ 9. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001220.html 11. http://vangoghletters.org/vg/ 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_Night_Over_the_Rhone 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180127.html 14. http://www.andreaplanet.com/mosaic/starrynight/ 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-impressionism 16. https://moma.org/ 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140706.html 18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state) 19. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html 20. https://youtu.be/ygBslyJKotA?list=PLN7CbH97ZxIjz3xhBHGzfGfbvWRSs8WQp 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191022.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 30. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=191023 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191024.html 32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 34. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 35. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 37. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 38. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 39. https://www.nasa.gov/ 40. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 41. http://www.mtu.edu/