Beyond just being beautiful, Starry Night somehow manages to capture the feeling of a clear night sky.Capturing feeling may be the whole point of impressionism—Van Gogh is himself most often ...

“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 hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’ The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh has sparked controversy among physicists.

It’s not hard to see why. The Post-Impressionist masterpiece hums with a swirling internal energy all its own. In the foreground of the painting, a cypress tree flares up against a night sky ...

The post-Impressionist artist painted the work (often referred to simply as "Starry Night") in June 1889, and its depiction of a pre-sunrise sky and village was inspired in part by the view from ...

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.

Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” has found a home on many surfaces. The instantly recognizable work of art has been plastered on posters, coffee mugs and even a bike path. It seemed like the ...

They can point to them in the night sky: there's Polaris, there's Vega, there's Adhara ... Illusions of a starry, starry night. By Michael Brooks. 1 June 2005 ...

Beyond just being beautiful, Starry Night somehow manages to capture the feeling of a clear night sky.Capturing feeling may be the whole point of impressionism—Van Gogh is himself most often ...