Vincent van Gogh is one of the most celebrated and influential artists in history. Known for his expressive use of color, ...

“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.

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the science beneath the strokes and swirls.

Van Gogh painted Starry Night in June 1889, while he was living in an asylum in southern France as he recovered from a mental breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear around ...

The starry night sky is a marvel but a dwindling one. On average skies are getting 10% brighter each year from increasing light pollution, defined as the excessive use of artificial light that can ...

The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Art Images via Getty Images Zukic purchased more land and hired a team of roughly two dozen gardeners. Recently, he completed his vision—a 25-acre ...

The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is not a masterpiece of flow physics—despite recent attention to its ...