{"id":3928541,"date":"2026-10-22T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-sky-in-van-goghs-starry-night-matches-the-predawn-sky-around-july-22-1889\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:04:03","slug":"the-sky-in-van-goghs-starry-night-matches-the-predawn-sky-around-july-22-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-sky-in-van-goghs-starry-night-matches-the-predawn-sky-around-july-22-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"The sky in Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8216;Starry Night&#8217; matches the predawn sky around July 22, 1889"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New research published in Scientific Reports finds that the sky in Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Starry Night&#8221; (1889) matches, in both observation and shape, the predawn sky over Saint-R\u00e9my around July 22, 1889. In the early hours of that period, a waning crescent moon, Venus and the Hyades star cluster in Taurus appeared close together. The study was carried out jointly by SLLAB, a South Korean space-science company, and the School of Space Research at Kyung Hee University.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-sky-van-gogh-starry-night.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research published in Scientific Reports finds that the sky in Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Starry Night&#8221; (1889) matches, in both observation and shape, the predawn sky over Saint-R\u00e9my around July 22, 1889. In the early hours of that period, a waning crescent moon, Venus and the Hyades star cluster in Taurus appeared close together. The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}