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Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece The Starry Night (1889) is one of art history's most iconic visions: a turbulent night sky alive with swirling, rhythmic whorls of deep blue and vibrant yellow, where stars blaze like radiant orbs and a glowing crescent moon dominates the heavens above a quiet village and a towering, flame-like cypress tree. Painted from the window of an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, this swirling cosmos sprang purely from van Gogh's imagination and emotional intensity—yet it eerily echoes a real celestial spectacle captured by the Hubble Space http://Telescope.In early 2004, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys delivered a breathtaking image of V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon), a red supergiant star roughly 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, near the outer fringes of our Milky Way. In January 2002, this distant star had erupted in a mysterious, flashbulb-like outburst—briefly flaring to extraordinary brightness before fading—sending a pulse of light racing outward through surrounding interstellar dust clouds.The result? An expanding "light echo" that illuminates vast, never-before-seen spirals and eddies of cosmic dust across trillions of kilometers, creating hypnotic whorls and turbulent patterns strikingly reminiscent of van Gogh's brushstrokes. Hubble first glimpsed these swirling structures in its February 8, 2004, observation, revealing a universe that seems to imitate art: glowing tendrils and eddies of illuminated dust curling around the central star, much like the dynamic sky in The Starry Night.
Hubble continued monitoring the evolving light echo over the years (with views from 2002 through at least 2006 showing its dramatic expansion and changing illumination), turning this rare stellar event into one of astronomy's most poetic visuals—a cosmic parallel to van Gogh's expressive genius.Image Credits: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI), and related Hubble observations.
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