“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.

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In “The Starry Night” and its dynamic sky, “the arrangement of the eddy-like formations crafted by van Gogh resembles the energy transfer mechanism in real turbulent flows,” the authors write.

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.

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.

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.

Vincent van Gogh, "The Starry Night" (1889), oil on canvas, 28 7/10 x 36 1/5 inches (73 x 92 cm) (public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Subscribe to our newsletter.

Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later. But over his short artistic career, his style evolved in form ...

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 ...