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.

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.

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Van Gogh painted Starry Night in June 1889, while he was living in an asylum in southern France as he recovered from a mental breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear around ...

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 ...