We’re asking you to look at a painting you’ve probably seen before: “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. (Sign up here to be notified about future challenges, which are published on the ...

The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist ... They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie ...

Credit: Yinxiang Ma One of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous creations is “The Starry Night,” an oil painting of a quaint French village at night with a blue night sky that dramatically swirls around the ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most iconic paintings, he incorporated a mix of memory, observation, and, perhaps, his intuition for mathematics and nature.

While we admire the beauty of “The Starry Night,” physicists decided to crash the party and analyze its swirling sky like a science experiment. It turns out van Gogh wasn’t just painting stars and ...

Vincent van Gogh’s most famous painting, “The Starry Night,” may be a contributing factor to atmospheric science now. Getty Images Specifically from an academic perspective, “The Starry ...

“The Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh is on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Fine Art/Corbis Historical/Getty Images The team was interested, in particular, with the painting ...

New research suggests there is more to Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night than meets the eye. Its turbulent, swirling sky shares many characteristics with invisible fluid dynamics ...