October’s full Hunter’s Moon to light up night sky this weekend

October 22, 2026 · 3:00 pm 4 sources

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• October's full Hunter's Moon to light up night sky this weekend
  BBC News · October 23, 2026 12:24
  October's full Moon, known as the Hunter's Moon, will rise on Sunday night. Will the weather be in your favour?

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• Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?
  Science News · October 22, 2026 15:16
  Vincent van Gogh'spainted the iconic work in the summer of 1889. Now researchers claim to have pinned down which night the stars were from.
• Astronomers unlock a mystery hidden in van Gogh’s The Starry Night
  Scientific American · October 22, 2026 16:00
  A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh’s creation of his iconic painting

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• The sky in Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' matches the predawn sky around July 22, 1889
  Phys.org · October 22, 2026 15:00
  New research published in Scientific Reports finds that the sky in Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) matches, in both observation and shape, the predawn sky over Saint-Rémy around July 22, 1889. In the early hours of that period, a waning crescent moon, Venus and the Hyades star cluster in…