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.
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