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When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good
A starry sky can be stunning—even inside a hospital emergency room.
Nature3d
These moths use the stars to navigate on an epic migration
They also recorded the activity of visual neurons in the moths’ brains to investigate whether they have an internal representation of the starry sky. When the moths did not have access to the ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel8mon
Our night sky is getting brighter. Here's 5 ways you can help keep it dark.
There's something magical about looking up at a starry sky. Across cultures and millennia, people have looked to the night sky to inspire awe, fulfill curiosity and even deliver guidance.
The New York Times1mon
10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Starry Night’ by van Gogh
The color in “Starry Night” is what is called expressive color (it’s not actually what the night sky looks like), as opposed to descriptive color, which would more realistically depict the ...
Business Insider8mon
Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that was invented 52 years later. It reveals the painter's keen observations of nature.
Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical ... the curling swaths of color in the painting's night sky closely follow a mathematical theory that describes the complex flow ...
New York Post9mon
Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ held a secret — and scientists just discovered the ‘hidden turbulence’
“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovere ...