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  • Hubble sends dramatic image of distant star not unlike Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

    03/06/2004 8:04:02 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 22 replies · 844+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 3/4/04 | AFP - Washington
    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Hubble space telescope captured an image of a distant star that bears resemblance to the famous Vincent van Gogh painting "Starry Night", NASA (news - web sites) and the European Space Agency announced. The spectacular image taken February 8 showed the star, V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon), surrounded by an expanding halo of light "complete with never-before-seen spirals of dust swirling across trillions of kilometers of interstellar space", a statement from the agencies said. "The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse...