Van Gogh's Starry Night sky may show Taurus, not Aries

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScientists now say Van Gogh's The Starry Night may show the constellation Taurus, not Aries, which challenges the accepted timeline of the painting, Euronews reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTaurus. For a hundred and thirty-odd years we've been looking at the wrong bull, or ram, or whatever it was.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe lead researcher, Elijah Jeong-hyun Kim, doubted Aries, so he built several telescopes and made two field trips to France in twenty nineteen.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeveral telescopes, two trips to France, all because he doubted a ram. I'd want that hunch in writing.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHis reason is that the stars in Aries are too faint in the predawn sky, hardly enough to inspire a painter.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo a stargazer reviewed the sky and found it lacking. Fair, but the painter wasn't even outside.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRight.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe painted in an asylum studio from sketches and memory, and Jose Luis Aragon of Mexico's national university says the sky is likely a composite of many nights.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorVerdict: the match is Taurus, the date is not one day. Even Kim says so.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVan Gogh needed one window and a memory. They needed two trips and several telescopes.