{"id":546271,"date":"2026-07-17T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546271\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:01:10","slug":"the-starry-night-in-space-dark-energy-camera-channels-a-cosmic-van-gogh-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546271\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Starry Night’ in space: Dark Energy Camera channels a cosmic Van Gogh (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reboots and remakes may be all the rage in Hollywood with mixed degrees of success (we don’t talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot … ever), but they aren’t so popular in other forms of art such as painting. However, a recent cosmic rework of one of art’s most well-regarded pieces could be just as breathtaking as its original counterpart.<\/p>\n

That’s all thanks to the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which has captured a vibrant view of the Corona Australis molecular cloud<\/a>, that shows the star-forming region resembling a cosmic take on Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic painting The Starry Night.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud measures around 16 light-years in diameter is located around 430 light-years from Earth, making it one of the closest star-birthing regions to our solar system. The molecular cloud and its dark lanes of gas and dust, the raw materials for star construction, are at the left of the DECam<\/a> image.<\/p>\n

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A vibrant view of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud as seen by the DECam painting a scene reminiscent of Van Gogh\u2019s The Starry Night. (Image credit: Dark Energy Survey\/DOE\/FNAL\/DECam\/ CTIO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA)<\/p>\n

Also prominent on the left of the image is the shining nebula NGC 6729, which is a reflection nebula of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. That means that it is a cloud of interstellar dust that is reflecting the light of the newborn stars embedded within this molecular cloud.<\/p>\n

NGC 6729 is composed of different elements that can be seen on the left side of the image. This includes an orange cloud that is actually the binary star system R Coronae Australis<\/a>. This binary consists of a pre-main-sequence star that has gathered mass but hasn’t yet triggered the fusion of hydrogen to helium in its core, and its companion, a red dwarf star. These stars orbit each other every 43 to 47 years and are incredibly bright, with their light also reflecting from nearby reflection nebulas.<\/a> This light also ionizes nearby gas, creating glowing regions called emission nebulae, also part of NGC 6729.<\/p>\n

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At left, the young binary system R Coronae Australis illuminates surrounding gas and dust, while the glittering globular cluster NGC 6723 shines at upper right, far beyond the nearby stellar nursery. (Image credit: Dark Energy Survey\/ DOE\/ FNAL\/ DECam\/ CTIO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA)<\/p>\n

To the top-right of the image is the globular cluster NGC 6723<\/a>, nicknamed the Chandelier Cluster. Located around 29,000 light-years from Earth, NGC 6723 is thought to contain some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Chandelier Cluster contains tens of thousands to millions of stars, which aren’t all ancient; within the spherically shaped globular cluster are more than a smattering of younger stars.<\/p>\n

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Astronomers and astrophotographers of all levels will be more than familiar with the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster and this region as a whole.<\/p>\n

But just as it took the artistic vision of Van Gogh to transform the night sky into a stunning painting, it has taken the observing power of the DECam, mounted on the V\u00edctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope <\/a>at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)<\/a> in Chile, to bring out the stunning beauty of this slice of the night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reboots and remakes may be all the rage in Hollywood with mixed degrees of success (we don’t talk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-546271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}