“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch ... but also the stars lightyears away as well. Current study authors examined different types of brushstrokes in similar circumstances ...

We’re asking you to look at a painting you’ve probably seen before: “The Starry Night” by Vincent van ... as many of his paintings were made on location. But this one wasn’t.

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 ...

Yet, a study released today in Physics of Fluids shows that the artist Vincent van Gogh captured theories of fluid dynamics in “The Starry Night,” depicting complex patterns of turbulence at ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” 135 years ago ... It appears because a general motion, like a current, can “pinch off,” according to the National Ocean Service.

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...