Van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Rémy. "One of the most beautiful things by the painters of this century," he had written to Theo in April 1885 ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

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 captivating ...

He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the statistical fluctuations found in a different flavor of turbulence that gives birth to the real starry night: supersonic turbulence.

Though visually similar to turbulence, “The Starry Night” lacks the scientific elements needed to support that claim.