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 whirling shapes in the painting, which was created in 1889, follow a ‘distinct pattern of structures’ seen in the natural environment, according to the study The whirling shapes in Vincent van ...

Researchers believe van Gogh spent enough time observing nature that he began to intuitively understand how turbulence operates in the real world. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

(CNN) — 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, a new ...

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes match ...

Two studies published in 2025 pushed back on the claims that the Dutch painter’s famous work accurately depicted a 20th-century mathematical model of turbulence.

Scientists measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint, to see if the laws that apply in the ...

It’s often said that art imitates nature, but in the case of a Vincent van Gogh enthusiast in Bosnia, nature has been corralled to imitate art. When Halim Zukic bought a plot of land two decades ago ...