“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 discovere ...

The physics of van Gogh's brushstrokes "The issue concerning 'The Starry Night' is whether its depicted flowing sky mirrors reality," Huang said. To figure that out, Huang and his colleagues ...

Welcome to another wonderful year of looking at some of the best night skies on the planet. We’re close enough to the equator that we see significantly more of the southern sky than is visible ...

As it turns out, Vincent van Gogh might have been both — a new study reveals that the brushstrokes from his iconic “The Starry Night ... throughout the night sky composition reveal that ...

“Unlike ‘The Starry Night,’ this painting lacks well-defined swirling patterns, but the clouds are rich of structures with different scales, resembling those frequently seen in the sky ...

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent ... Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting.