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Scientists may have solved a 137-year-old mystery hidden in Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists doubling as art detectives have traced Vincent van Gogh’s “ The Starry Night ” to a celestial scene that suggests a new date for one of the world’s most famous paintings. Their findings indicate that rather than being a product of van Gogh’s imagination, “The Starry Night” may have been inspired by what he saw as he gazed heavenward from his French asylum 137 years ago. A South Korean team reported Thursday that after years of forensic astronomy and researc