They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...

“This is the largest representation of The Starry Night, and the result of 20 years of dreams, of living those dreams to make them real,” he tells Reuters’ Daria Sito-sucic. Van Gogh’s ...

Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. One word kept popping up to describe the artist’s work and ...

Image caption, The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas, Niday Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) is an example of how an artist can use a ...