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Thursday 4 October 2012

Take 100 NASA Photos, Stir, Make Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'




We've seen Van Gogh's iconic "Starry Night" painting as both an iPad app and a domino run, but now an astronomy major has recreated it in perhaps the most apt way: with NASA photos of the cosmos.
Alex Parker, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-SmithsonianCenter for Astrophysics, made the mosaic-style image out of publicly available downloads of NASA's top 100 images from theHubble Space Telescope. Cloudy weather prevented him from working on a recent night at the observatory, so he came up with the idea of creating the image for Hubble's 22nd birthday.
If you want to check out the image at full resolution, it's here. A close-up of the top right section is below.
This story originally published on Mashable here.

 



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