Vincent van Gogh in Space
The Starry Night is a painting by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, written in June 1889. It’s considered one of the best works of Van Gogh and one of the most significant works of Western painting.
In February 2018, team of Oxford astronomers, led by Professor Peter Roche, published a unique snapshot making with an infrared camera CanariCam. This snapshot is very similar to Van Gogh's famous painting.
This infrared snapshot showing the area around supermassive black hole in the center of Milky Way. The bright red color shows the heat that emits particles of warmed star gas and dust. The lines show the magnetic fields that arise from the complex interaction of matter in the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole at a distance of 1 light year from the center of the Galaxy.
They say artists have a connection with cosmos, maybe it’s true?
