Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" accurately depicts the energy distribution in turbulent flows. The painting's swirls follow Kolmogorov's law of turbulence, a key equation in physics. It also shows ...

“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovered.

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 ...

Art & Tech Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Surprisingly Accurate, Say Physicists. Van Gogh painted the work in a windowless studio at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum.

To convince the dubious, Wren offers an example: Van Gogh's "Starry Night," painted in 1889. When he imagines the painting with today's light polluted skies, the night sly looked more like this: ...

Octave Mirbeau, a writer and critic, saw Starry Night in 1891, a year after Van Gogh’s suicide, writing about the Dutchman’s “admirable madness of skies where drunken stars spin and totter ...

Starry Night over the Rhone, from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, is to be lent for an exhibition in Arles—the city where it was painted in September 1888.The picture will be ...

Preserving the starry, starry night. August 10, 2014 / 9:28 AM EDT / CBS News Astronomers and stargazers combat light pollution, to bask in the awe-inspiring splendor of a truly dark sky .