The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to ... mixes around with some background swirls and whirls in a fashion predicted by turbulence ...

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

The whirling shapes in Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night closely resemble the turbulence ... of energy transfer ...

Scientists have determined the eddies in Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" adhere to Kolmogorov's law, a theory of turbulence that predicts atmospheric movement and scale based on inertial energy.

In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

When Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced "The Starry Night" in 1889, he is believed to have put paint to canvas to illustrate the chaotic conditions inside his own mind. Yet according to a new ...