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, The Starry ...

"Starry Night Over the Rhône," Van Gogh's famed nightscape, returns to its city of origin after more than a century. Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888).

W hen Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced "The Starry Night" in 1889, he is believed to have put paint to canvas to illustrate the chaotic conditions inside his own mind.Yet according to a new ...

Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ held a secret — and scientists just discovered the ‘hidden turbulence’ By . Alex Mitchell. Published Sep. 18, 2024, 3:24 p.m. ET. He really did gogh the extra ...

Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" is undoubtedly one of the most famous paintings in the world, instantly recognizable for its vibrant colors and dramatic brushstrokes that create what appears ...

Amid the green hills and meadows of central Bosnia, a local businessman has realised his long-held dream: recreating one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, The Starry Night, in the form ...

More information: James J. Riley et al, Is there hidden turbulence in Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night ?, Journal of Turbulence (2025). DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2025.2477244.

In 1941 — 52 years after van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" — mathematician Andrey N. Kolmogorov proposed a formula to explain how the kinetic energy of a vigorously moving fluid flowed from ...

The results suggest Van Gogh captured multiple dimensions of atmospheric physics with surprising accuracy. Credit: Yinxiang Ma. One of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous creations is “The Starry Night,” ...

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 ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” 135 years ago, he captured a subjective feeling about the heavens. But, as it turns out, real science is also reflected in the iconic piece, ...

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.