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In these events, the gravity of a foreground star and any accompanying planets magnifies the light of a more distant background star, briefly making it appear brighter.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

“Across the Ages” reveals a culture—omnivorous, regenerative, endlessly adaptable—whose dynamic abstract artworks resist any fixed sense of beginning or end, above or below, foreground or background.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

In the foreground of the painting was a car encampment with a tattered floral sheet woven through the windows, cloth tarps and couch cushions creating a shield against the elements.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The iconic photograph taken by astronaut William Anders captured the bright blue Earth against the vast darkness of space, with the Moon's cratered surface in the foreground.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Vincent gets to work immediately, and the next day has already done a study of “old thatched roofs with a field of peas in flower and some wheat in the foreground, hilly background.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman